On the last day of his fast here on Tuesday for bringing back black money stashed away in foreign banks, yoga guru Baba Ramdev got the surprise backing of erstwhile Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal who urged people to support the cause.
“The government stands exposed in its inaction against corruption and reluctance to talk to the people of this country,” he tweeted on Tuesday, days after Anna Hazare and his team called off their 10-day fast at Jantar Mantar last month in the face of government indifference.
Extending support to Baba Ramdev’s agitation and the issues raised by him, Mr. Kejriwal, rather belatedly, cautioned him against political parties who were expressing their support.
“They are neck deep in corruption and their support is mere opportunism,” he tweeted a few hours before the yoga guru called off his agitation.
No one from Mr. Hazare’s erstwhile core committee barring Kiran Bedi went to Ramlila Maidan to attend the protest, even though Mr. Hazare had publicly declared his support to Baba Ramdev and had assured him that he would attend the campaign. Ramdev had attended each of Mr. Hazare’s protest fasts for a strong Lokpal in the last two years.
Asserting that “it is not a Swami Ramdev and Team Anna issue” as some people were projecting, Mr. Kejriwal said the issue was “corruption versus people of India” and “people must stand united.”
Baba Ramdev had to take several questions early on in his agitation as to why Mr. Hazare had not joined him during his protest. Mr. Hazare is in his village Ralegan Siddhi in Maharashtra. Team Anna had criticised Baba Ramdev earlier this month after the yoga guru shared the platform with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Earlier, answering a question, Mr. Kejriwal said they had not received any invitation.
Keywords: Baba Ramdev protest, black money issue, Ramlila Maidan, Lokpal demand, anti-corruption movement
Thank you Mr. Kejrival for your kind support. Now you are all together
for 2014 elections. The way Baba Ramdev and Team Anna movements
progressed and ended up with resolution to be a part of 2014 general
elections, few lines:
MANJIL TO TERI YAHI THI .... (this was your destiny)
BAS JINDIGI GUJAR GAYI AATE AATE (life just passed in reaching there)
Ramdev ji and Kejriwal ji and team and party and all, 'ye jo public
hai ye sub janti hai' (people know everything) Be careful else you
might say:
KYA MILA TUJHE IS DUNIYA SE ? (what you got from that)
APNO NE HI JALA DIYA TUJHE JATE JATE (your own people cremated you)
Friends, time and again we have seen the course of mass movements in
Idina, they are social to begin with, progress to political and end up
in anti-social! How long??
'Why Anna Why Ramdev' are needed in the society?
Headline is kind misleading as article suggests Kejriwal always
supported a movement against corruption but to keep distance from
political parties. In all certain meanings, Kejriwal is the person with
very clear understanding in his mission and well researched too.
True, Baba Ramdev is fighting for a cause.But how funny that he has started recruiting the persons like Mulayam etc.who are not only corrupt
but immmoral and unethical also.By taking them to his side what message
Baba wants to give the masses.
Kejriwal had always supported Ramdev so why the "now" in your heading? And he has
always been against the political opportunists who have been aligning themselves to
the Yoga guru and so really nothing has changed. The Hindu could find something else
that is new and interesting for us the public to read instead of harping on old stale
news
Mr Kejrival’s statement that he did not visit Baba Ramdev because he
had not received an invitation is quite funny. Ramdev is fighting for a
cause which is also uppermost in the mind of Mr Kejrival. There was no
marriage party for which invitation, verbal and printed, was needed. He
should have visited him as Kiran Bedi did. Our leaders need to be taught
some basics of behavior and etiquette.
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