How come Baba Ramdev lasted just 9 days, asks Congress
Congress cast aspersions on Baba Ramdev's hospitalisation after eight days of fast, asking how the yoga guru could sink in nine days when Nigamanand fasted for 115 days.
By TNN |
NEW DELHI: Congress cast aspersions on Baba Ramdev's hospitalisation after eight days of fast, asking how the yoga guru could sink in nine days when Nigamanand fasted for 115 days and when ordinary political leaders fast for longer periods.
Leader of Opposition in Uttarakhand Harak Singh Rawat said the hype over Ramdev's health was to save him from farmers who had announced demonstrations to expose land encroachment by the yoga guru. "It was a BJP sponsored fast and they later got him into hospital to stop his being exposed by farmers," he said.
Amid reports that Nigamanand may have been poisoned, AICC spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan accused BJP of the murder of a fasting sadhu.
Rawat, talking to reporters, said ordinary political leaders fast for longer periods and cited party MLA Kishore Upadhyay's recent 14-day fast over resettlement issues of Tehri dam displaced while the yoga guru could not hold out beyond a week. He said the fast was a "drama" and the yoga guru would be exposed the day Patanjali was probed.
Demanding a CBI probe into Nigamanand's death, citing poisoning as reason, Rawat asked why the BJP brass was blind to corruption in Uttarakhand against which the sadhu was protesting.
The Congress offensive to deepen the saffron taint on Ramdev received a fillip after Nigamanand's death who died after a long fast against illegal quarrying in Ganga. The hyped BJP presence at Ramdev's doorsteps while the deceased sadhu was also in the same hospital gave Congress an opening to paint Ramdev's fast as motivated.
Rawat said the nexus between mining mafia and BJP state leaders was responsible for Nigamanand's death. He demanded a CBI probe to bring out the truth. "BJP government should be dismissed. It has lost the moral right to govern, it is responsible for the death of a sadhu," he said.
Natarajan said, "The deafening silence of BJP leadership on the sadhu's poisoning and murder exposes its double standards on corruption."
Leader of Opposition in Uttarakhand Harak Singh Rawat said the hype over Ramdev's health was to save him from farmers who had announced demonstrations to expose land encroachment by the yoga guru. "It was a BJP sponsored fast and they later got him into hospital to stop his being exposed by farmers," he said.
Amid reports that Nigamanand may have been poisoned, AICC spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan accused BJP of the murder of a fasting sadhu.
Rawat, talking to reporters, said ordinary political leaders fast for longer periods and cited party MLA Kishore Upadhyay's recent 14-day fast over resettlement issues of Tehri dam displaced while the yoga guru could not hold out beyond a week. He said the fast was a "drama" and the yoga guru would be exposed the day Patanjali was probed.
Demanding a CBI probe into Nigamanand's death, citing poisoning as reason, Rawat asked why the BJP brass was blind to corruption in Uttarakhand against which the sadhu was protesting.
The Congress offensive to deepen the saffron taint on Ramdev received a fillip after Nigamanand's death who died after a long fast against illegal quarrying in Ganga. The hyped BJP presence at Ramdev's doorsteps while the deceased sadhu was also in the same hospital gave Congress an opening to paint Ramdev's fast as motivated.
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Rawat said the nexus between mining mafia and BJP state leaders was responsible for Nigamanand's death. He demanded a CBI probe to bring out the truth. "BJP government should be dismissed. It has lost the moral right to govern, it is responsible for the death of a sadhu," he said.
Natarajan said, "The deafening silence of BJP leadership on the sadhu's poisoning and murder exposes its double standards on corruption."
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