Ramdev victim of multi-nationals' propaganda against Swadeshi medicine - Mulayam
Vijay Upadhyay
Agra. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has strongly refuted CPI-M leader Brinda Karat's allegations against Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and claimed that Ramdev had become the victim of multi-national propaganda against the "Swadeshi" concept of medicine.
Talking to newspersons on Wednesday evening in Agra, Mr Yadav said that Baba Ramdev was struggling for the development of yoga as an alternative medicine concept in the country and had more than two crore disciples, which had made him appear as a threat to the dominance of multinational medicine and consumer products companies in India.
Feeling this threat, he said, the multinationals were now trying to destroy Baba Ramdev's reputation amongst his disciples through such cheap propaganda of which, Brinda Karat had unwittingly become a medium, of which, he strongly disapproved. He said that the CPI-M leader had probably not gone into the depth of these fake allegations being made against the yoga guru.
According to Mr Yadav, the UP Government was firmly behind Baba Ramdev and his concept of yoga as a medicine and the Government would make all efforts to promote ayurveda in the State in an effort to reduce the reliance of the people on allopathic medicine manufactured by the multi-nationals.
Comparing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi with former US President Nixon, he said that the Watergate incident was enough to topple the Nixon government and by tapping on the phones of the top Samajwadi Party leaders, the Congress has also signaled its intellectual and political demise.
He asked that if the Congress' claims of some private channels being involved in the telephone tap were true, then how was it that such an extremely covert operation that spanned almost all telecom companies of the country, went unnoticed of the country's intelligence services? He said that this telephone tap incident was a precursor to serious threats that could be faced by the country's security later on, if these intelligence agencies kept maintaining such inexcusably lethargic attitude.
Commenting on the sting operations being conducted by various private news channels, he said that all the sting operations of these channels were being sponsored and soon a time will come when these channels will have to go off the air as nobody would care to watch them.
Talking to newspersons on Wednesday evening in Agra, Mr Yadav said that Baba Ramdev was struggling for the development of yoga as an alternative medicine concept in the country and had more than two crore disciples, which had made him appear as a threat to the dominance of multinational medicine and consumer products companies in India.
Feeling this threat, he said, the multinationals were now trying to destroy Baba Ramdev's reputation amongst his disciples through such cheap propaganda of which, Brinda Karat had unwittingly become a medium, of which, he strongly disapproved. He said that the CPI-M leader had probably not gone into the depth of these fake allegations being made against the yoga guru.
According to Mr Yadav, the UP Government was firmly behind Baba Ramdev and his concept of yoga as a medicine and the Government would make all efforts to promote ayurveda in the State in an effort to reduce the reliance of the people on allopathic medicine manufactured by the multi-nationals.
Comparing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi with former US President Nixon, he said that the Watergate incident was enough to topple the Nixon government and by tapping on the phones of the top Samajwadi Party leaders, the Congress has also signaled its intellectual and political demise.
He asked that if the Congress' claims of some private channels being involved in the telephone tap were true, then how was it that such an extremely covert operation that spanned almost all telecom companies of the country, went unnoticed of the country's intelligence services? He said that this telephone tap incident was a precursor to serious threats that could be faced by the country's security later on, if these intelligence agencies kept maintaining such inexcusably lethargic attitude.
Commenting on the sting operations being conducted by various private news channels, he said that all the sting operations of these channels were being sponsored and soon a time will come when these channels will have to go off the air as nobody would care to watch them.
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