Brinda Karat146;s battle gets lonely

Subhas Chakraborty, who is often critical about his comrades8217; dogmatic approach on various issues, has said the presence of animal bone powder in a medicine is not essentially a way to hoodwink people.

8216;8216;What8217;s the harm if there are bones in a medicine? Do we have to remind all that there are cases of people digesting raw meat?8217;8217; he said.

When Ramdev had visited Kolkata and conducted a yoga session at the Salt Lake stadium, Chakraborty happened to be a visitor. 8216;8216;Ramdev had come to the stadium and he was welcomed by more than one lakh people. I was a spectator and witnessed the power of yoga,8217;8217; he said.

Meanwhile, more politicians lined up to back Ramdev8212;who was born Ram Kishan Yadav in village Alipur of Mahendragarh district of Haryana. Bharatiya Kisan Union President Mahendra Singh Tikait today warned that his outfit would launch an agitation to muster support for the yoga guru. He said the attack on Ramdev would have an impact on the country8217;s farming community and called the controversy a 8216;8216;conspiracy of multinational companies.8217;8217;

The Uttaranchal government, too, does not want to do anything to hurt Ramdev, 33, who has become its brand ambassador8212;lakhs of devotees come to his ashram every month.

8216;8216;Swami Ramdev is a roving ambassador of Uttaranchal and there was no cause to doubt him,8217;8217; said Uttaranchal Congress chief and Rajya Sabha MP Harish Rawat. 8216;8216;We have to take into account many aspects, including legal ones, before deciding on the next course of action,8217;8217; Uttaranchal Chief Secretary M. Ramachandran said. An earlier probe conducted by the state government had cleared the pharmacy of allegations of human skulls and animal parts having been used in its medicines.

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