Centre didn't ask me to negotiate: Sri Sri

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Saturday met Ramdev and appealed to him to end his eight-day fast even as the latter’s health condition showed signs of improvement. The Art of Living founder, however, made it clear the Centre had not asked him to negotiate with the 46-year-old yoga guru for ending his fast against black money and corruption. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and former president A P J Abdula Kalam also appealed to Ramdev to end his fast.

“No. Nobody in the central government has said anything to me and I have come here on my own. I will keep meeting him till he breaks his fast,” Ravi Shankar said when asked if someone from the government got in touch with him on the issue.“If government wants, I am ready to do anything...whatever the nation needs,” he said after meeting Ramdev at the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences for about an hourin Dehra Dun.

Ramdev, admitted to the institute last evening after his condition deteriorated on the seventh day of his fast, was given saline and glucose.