New Delhi, July 25: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Monday lashed out at the Congress-led UPA government for “deliberately targeting” him for raising the issues of national interests.
“I have demanded that the black money, illicitly stashed in tax havens abroad, be declared as a national asset. Similarly, I have raised the issue of rising corruption in the country. By doing so perhaps I have done a big crime, as the government thinks,” he said.
“I am paying the price for raising the issues of national interest,” he said.
“But I will continue my fight till the last breath of my life,” he said.
“In the British-ruled India freedom fighters were put to jail and some of them were sent to gallows for fighting for their motherland. Taking a cue from the British, the UPA government is harassing the people who raise the issues of national interest.
“The government has lost its credibility. It has utterly failed to perform its basic constitutional duties,” he said.
Targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former finance minister and present Home Minister P Chidambaram for allegedly endorsing the faulty telecom policy introduced by former telecom minister A Raja, he said it’s time the government should come clean on the allegations.
“Will the government take action against the Prime Minister and Chidambaram?” he asked.
He took a dig at the Congress by quoting senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar who said the party is being run like a “circus”.
He came down heavily on the Congress leadership (without naming Rahul Gandhi and Digvijay Singh) for comparing the Mumbai attacks to those in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. “The government lacks political will power to cub terror,” he said.
He said the government is hatching a conspiracy against Ayurveda.
He said his aide Acharya Balkrishna is being framed for doctored cases like “possessing fake passport and fake marksheet”.
—–Agencies