The Indian Olympic Association will formally ask organisers of the London Games to drop Dow Chemical as a sponsor over its links to the Bhopal disaster, acting chief Vijay Kumar Malhotra said Wednesday. "We will express our displeasure to London Games organisers and ask them to drop Dow as one of their sponsors," Malhotra told AFP.
In 2001, Dow Chemical bought fellow chemical company Union Carbide, whose pesticide plant leaked gas into Bhopal in 1984, killing tens of thousands.