To placate Baba Ramdev, the UPA committed itself to passing a law to declare black money a national asset. If only the Hon’ble Ministers who went on bended knee before the Baba had read his vision statement.
Called Hamare Sapnon ka Bharat (The India of Our Dreams), the 44-page booklet brought out by Ramdev’s Bharat Swabhiman Trust it’s distributed free as part of his campaign has gems rarely heard.
Take the most precious one. Why will the government not enact a tough law on corruption? Baba has a remarkable answer: “(Because) the mothers, sisters and daughters of cabinet ministers and leaders at the top are never raped, nor do they and their families have to eat adulterated food, nor is the money lost in corruption theirs.”
Or: “These corrupt, dishonest people and thieves (the ministers) neither practise yoga, nor accept spiritualism, or God… Every month these dishonest people loot Rs 1.5 lakh crore, or Rs 5,000 crore daily. These people remaining in power even for a single day is a big threat to the country.”
That’s not all.
“Foreign countries, their agencies and companies have a big role in policy-making and appointment of prime minister, finance minister, external affairs minister and defence minister. For their chosen people, they undertake media management, image-building and arrange funding. Thus, indirectly, Indian governments are run by foreign powers.”
No government, no political party is expressly excluded, not even the Baba’s supporter BJP, from the ringing denunciation.
The booklet, which has photos of Ramdev and his aide Acharya Balkrishna on the cover, does not carry the name of the writer, but in the preface, Balkrishna writes: “Every sentence in this booklet will bring a new revolution in India and infuse a new inspiration, enthusiasm and incomparable courage in citizens. I am fully confident that his booklet will prepare the foundation for a new era of nation-building through human and village development.”
The booklet offers solutions for a bewildering range of ailments: from social justice and foreign policy to chronic cough, acne and hepatitis.
The core of the booklet is a chapter which breaks down Rashtradharma, (national duty) in 60 points.
Point 1: India has 89 types of mineral reserves worth Rs 10,000 lakh crore. “If we don’t remove these dishonest people, then they will loot all this national wealth.”
Point 2: “The day corruption is eliminated, India will become an economic superpower. We will run the big five international organisations, IMF, World Bank, WHO, UNO, WTO from here.”
Also, “from Afghanistan to Burma, and from Kailash Mansarovar to Kanyakumari, Akhand Bharat will rise as a powerful and spiritual country, leading to the rise of a new world.”
There’s a lot to be set right, says the Baba.
“We have Macaulay’s education system which is bereft of spiritual values, the health system in which yoga, ayurveda and nature cure have been pushed to the margins, and a legal system which still has 34,735 laws made by the British to loot the country.”
All this because “what happened on August 14, 1947 was transfer of power and the country is still being run by a foreign system.”
“People who use goods made by foreign companies unknowingly become partner in a national sin and betrayal,” the booklet says, adding that the Baba uses no foreign-made product except the aeroplane. Foreign companies must be driven out “like the East India Company”, by bocycotting their products.
A long list of brands and companies follows: toothpaste by Colgate or Hindustan Lever, because “most toothpaste are made with powdered bones”; chocolates by companies like Cadbury’s, because “most chocolates contain a poison called arsenic”.
In Baba’s scheme of things, students in schools will make swadeshi goods and ayurvedic medicines for sale. “This will make high-quality, low-price shampoos, soaps, toothpaste, candles, incense sticks, chyawanprash and other items available to the people.”
-Courtesy: Indian Express