Ramdev to field candidates in 2014 polls

Minati Singha , TNN, 9 February 2010, 10:07pm IST

BHUBANESWAR: Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday announced that he will field candidates in the 2014 General Elections.

"The process of making good politicians has already begun. We are creating vote banks," Ramdev said making it clear that he does not have any "political aspirations". "Prime minister and chief ministers respect me. Why should I be one among them," he said. However, the yoga guru avoided queries on launching a political outfit.

Speaking to the media here, Ramdev said "Each village in India will have a yoga centre to educate poeple about health, nutrition and lessons on politics under the Yoga and Bharat Swabhiman campaign. People of India are completely ignorant about nutrition as well as politics for which they are cheated by corrupt politicians."

He said, Orissa has about 13,000 yoga teachers and 19,000 Bharat Swabhiman members. "We aim to create 500 teachers in each village and they will create two new teachers a day. Our target is to create at least seven lakh members in each district in the next two years."

"My main aim is to eradicate corruption from India, indianization of the systems and to make India a Super Power in the next five years," he said.

Terming corruption as the main reason for growing Maoist violence in India, Ramdev said, "Some people are joining the Maoists for lack of development initiatives in the interior areas. They want to change the system so do I. But they are trying to do it through violence, which is not right." He said, if proposed he is ready to mediate between the government and the Red rebels.

The yoga guru also said the state governments should get 50 per cent of the royalties from natural resources. "Only 14 per cent royalty to the state on mineral resources is like British rule. Ironically, despite huge mineral resources the rich states are poverty-stricken. The amount should be spent on the development of the state."

He also pointed out that industries should not be given farmland or land at lower cost. "Industrial houses are not charitable trusts that they will be given land at a lower price or on lease. Everything should be done in an impartial manner."

Ramdev emphasized on recovering over Rs 100 lakh crore deposited in different foreign banks, including Swiss bank and invest it for the development of the country. "Though the government had promised to recover the huge amount deposited in foreign banks nothing has been done. It raised the suspicion that whether the money belongs to those in power."

I would request any of our readers to point out in the whole article, where Swami Ramdeo has mentioned that he will put up candidates in the 3014 elections.
Yet the Heading claims loudly that Ramdev to field candidates in 2014 polls.
This is the corruption of the media.
Swami Ramdeo has always maintained that he wants to clean the system.
He wants the political parties to do a bit of soul searching and understand that the people are fed up of corruption.
Up to now, we the people did not have any rallying force but now we have Swami Ramdeo as our rallying point.
If the political parties do not put up honest candidates, and give us just the smugglers, rapists, extortionist and murderers to vote for, Swami Ramdeo will be forced to advice the people whom to vote.
For that he is building up his vote bank to give honest legislators to the people of India. This vote bank consist of people who share Swamiji's views of corruption.
A person will just read the headlines and will not read the rest and form their own impressions.
They use their print and electronic media blatantly and distort the news.I am writing to the information ministry to complain againt the Time of India.
This is how they distorted news about my own Gurudev, Asharamji