Why baba ramdev is fasting

He said the government's inaction to bring back "ill-gotten wealth" of Indians back was "unacceptable". Dubbing the Manmohan Singh government as the "most corrupt government" in the history of independent India, Prasad claimed that Congress had failed to take lessons from history.

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Living and entertainment iDiva MensXP. All rights reserved. For reprint rights: Times Syndication Service. So why is he pitching tent in Delhi with 60 doctors, an intensive care unit, 1, toilets, a huge media centre, seven giant TV screens broadcasting the anti-graft fast and an estimated 20, supporters in attendance? Is he a publicity seeker or is he using his popularity to highlight a just cause? His supporters say there is a legitimate space for people like him, who have influence over thousands of followers, and who can rally them against corruption, India's biggest existential threat.

They say people like him and Anna Hazare actually do democracy proud by bringing citizens' pressure to bear on government. But many question whether a yoga merchant should become a self-appointed leader of the anti-corruption drive.

They believe such fasts in a constitutional democracy can easily become a coercive tool to blackmail government. One of India's greatest thinkers, BR Ambedkar, eloquently wrote that such methods introduced a "grammar of anarchy" to a democracy. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a respected commentator and head of a leading Indian think-tank, believes that Baba Ramdev's fast is an "absurdity, an absolute travesty of democracy and phenomenally dangerous trend".

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