GUWAHATI, June 10 (NNN): The Congress chief ministers are taking part in confronting yoga guru Baba Ramdev in their own ways. It was Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit who sent large number of security forces to drive out Baba Ramdev and his followers from the Ramlila ground some five days ago. Another Congress chief minister in the North East region has decided to take back a piece of land from Ramdev. Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has decided to strike where it hurts more – take back land given to the yogi and his ayurvedic brand Patanjali. In a packed media conference in Guwahati this afternoon, the chief minister of Assam said Ramdev had approached him once for land. “I remember allotting him a plot of land but I am not sure if he got it or not. If the land is not being used for the purpose it was taken, it will be taken back,” he said.
The chief minister's ‘follow-up’ to the Congress-led UPA’s resolve to probe Ramdev’s assets will, however, be applied to all cases of allotment to firms, trusts, individuals and NGOs. “We want to regularize the land and have a policy that warrants proper utilization,” he said.
Tarun Gogoi also came down heavily on Ramdev and social activist Anna Hazare for ‘doing politics’ on the issue of corruption. “Hazare and Ramdev are not the only ones concerned about corruption,” he said, reminding that Assam was the first Indian state to implement RTI. The Assam chief minister was critical about Ramdev’s jibe at the Congress on the issue of black money at various camps he had organized in the run up to assembly elections in Assam earlier this year. “If somebody does yoga, it is fine. But he should not do politics,” Tarun Gogoi said.
The chief minister's ‘follow-up’ to the Congress-led UPA’s resolve to probe Ramdev’s assets will, however, be applied to all cases of allotment to firms, trusts, individuals and NGOs. “We want to regularize the land and have a policy that warrants proper utilization,” he said.
Tarun Gogoi also came down heavily on Ramdev and social activist Anna Hazare for ‘doing politics’ on the issue of corruption. “Hazare and Ramdev are not the only ones concerned about corruption,” he said, reminding that Assam was the first Indian state to implement RTI. The Assam chief minister was critical about Ramdev’s jibe at the Congress on the issue of black money at various camps he had organized in the run up to assembly elections in Assam earlier this year. “If somebody does yoga, it is fine. But he should not do politics,” Tarun Gogoi said.
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