BJP to meet president over crackdown on Ramdev
June 6th, 2011 - 11:59 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Top leaders of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will meet President Pratibha Patil Monday afternoon to demand the convening of a special session of parliament to discuss the central government’s action on yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s stir in Delhi.
“We would seek the intervention of the president in the matter. We would meet her today (Monday) at 12.30 p.m. As L.K. Advani informed earlier, the BJP will demand a special session of parliament to discuss the issue,” BJP spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad said.
Blaming the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for the police crackdown, Prasad said: “We will expose this government as it is not at all keen to take any meaningful and effective action against the menace of corruption, black money and fruits of crime and corruption lying abroad.”
“The whole country is angry and in an agitating mode. The government has lost all its moral authority and is cracking down on peaceful protests like the one led by Baba Ramdev,” Prasad told Times Now channel.
Ramdev and thousands of his supporters who were protesting at Delhi’s Ramlila ground, were forcibly removed by police after Saturday midnight. Ramdev was airlifted to Dehradun from where he was taken to his ashram in Hardwar Sunday morning.
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