Govt too spineless to fight corruption: Ramdev

Yoga guru Ramdev on Saturday attacked the government calling it too spineless to fight corruption. The government could neither retrieve black money stashed away abroad nor come out with an effective Lok Pal Bill, Ramdev said as he returned to the national capital today, nearly a month after his forced exit.

He was arrested and evicted by the Delhi Police on the night of June 5 at the Ramlila Maidan, where he was on a fast unto death with his followers demanding that the government must bring back black money stashed away in foreign banks.

Ramdev also accused the Delhi Police of plotting to kill him when they attacked him and his fasting followers. “The plan was not to arrest me but to kill me,” he said, adding that the stage on which he was fasting was set afire and when his followers tried to put out the flames they were attacked by the police.

The yoga guru said he would continue to fight against corruption alongside anybody but did not specify whether he would join veteran activist Anna Hazare on August 16 when the latter resumes his fast for a strong Lok Pal.

He said he was not a mask for any party and said: “Why did the Prime Minister and the finance minister write to me and send four ministers to talk to me at the airport if I was either a Naxal, a terrorist or a communal element?”

Earlier, Ramdev met his injured follower Rajbala at the GB Pant Hospital where she is on a ventilator. Rajbala was grievously injured in the police crackdown at the Ramlila Maidan in the early hours of June 5.