'Union Govt should step down if it fails to bring black money'

BASTI (UP): Yoga guru Swami Ramdev today said that the Central government should step down if it failed to frame a law against corruption and initiate steps to bring back the black money stashed in Swiss banks.

Addressing a yoga camp here, Ramdev said that he had told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that poverty can be easily alleviated if the black money worth over Rs two lakh eighty thousand crore is brought to the country.

"We will have to work to save the country if the government fails to enact a law against corruption and bring back black money," Ramdev said, adding that he has requested people not to buy products made by foreign companies.

On his claim that a minister in Uttarakhand had demanded Rs two crore from him, the yoga guru said that he had not named anyone and there is no need to make unnecessary comments on the issue.

"I had merely stated a fact and the people should be happy that there is someone who is speaking the truth," he added.