Ramdev gives govt 3 days to meet his 3 demands

An incipient tenor of superiority visavis Anna Hazare’s movement against corruption was apparent throughout Ramdev’s speech. He repeatedly claimed that he had no political agenda. Announcing his decision to go without food for three days,he asserted: “This is neither an indefinite fast nor a fast unto death” — clearly sarcastic references to Team Anna’s fast unto death that failed to deliver.

Ramdev specifically said he was with Anna Hazare in the latter’s “social agenda”. He also said his movement was not against any political party and was willing to talk to anybody,including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

IAC’s now apparently abandoned agenda of a Lokpal Bill was the focus of Ramdev’s morning address and in what looked like a calculated move to steal Team Anna’s thunder he said there was no “room for ego hassles in something this important and even the much maligned ‘government’ Lokpal Bill would do. We will make do with a 99% Lokpal but bring it in the monsoon session of Parliament”. The other two demands are to make the appointments of chief election commissioner,CBI director,comptroller and auditor general of India and the central vigilance commissioner independent of the government and his original agenda of bringing back black money.

With a crowd of more than 20,000 in attendance,the yoga teacher who has now decided to devote himself to “nation building” said: “If they do not understand the language of non-violence,there will be revolution. That is why I started this agitation after visiting Rajghat and Shahidi Park.”