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The prime minister has intervened for the first time in the row over Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the wrap that will surround the main Olympic stadium in London, backing the deal in the face of protest from the Indian government and human-rights campaigners.
David Cameron has followed the line adopted by the International Olympic Committee and London 2012 chairman, Lord Coe, arguing that Dow was not the owner of Union Carbide at the time of Bhopal disaster in 1984 that killed an estimated 15,000 people.
Campaign groups including Amnesty International and politicians including the shadow Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell, have called for the relationship to be dropped, claiming that Dow has ongoing liabilities relating to the fatal gas leak………………………………………….