BJP Meets President, Wants Parliament Session on Ramdev


New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Top leaders of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met President Pratibha Patil Monday and demanded a special session of parliament to discuss the central government's action on yoga guru Baba Ramdev as well as corruption-related issues.

"We met the president today to demand a special session of parliament, an emergency session, to discuss issues like corruption, black money stashed away in foreign banks and the manhandling of peaceful protesters, including women and elderly persons, who gathered to protest against such issues (at Ramlila Ground)," senior BJP leader L.K. Advani told reporters outside Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The crackdown, he added, was "ironically" against a person who was "welcomed by four ministers".

"The session will give us the opportunity to put our point of view and the government will also get a chance to present its views, so that the guilty can be punished," he said.

The BJP leaders called on the president after police forcibly removed Ramdev and thousands of his supporters from the Ramlila Ground after Saturday midnight. Ramdev was airlifted to Dehradun from where he was taken to his ashram in Hardwar Sunday morning.

"The president assured us that she will go through our memorandum and take the required action," Advani said.

Claiming the present government was the "most corrupt government in Indian history", Advani said because of their efforts the issue of corruption is widely discussed across the country.

BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad blamed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for the police crackdown, saying: "We will expose this government as it is not at all keen to take any meaningful and effective action against the menace of corruption, black money and fruits of crime and corruption lying abroad."

"The whole country is angry and in an agitating mode. The government has lost all its moral authority and is cracking down on peaceful protests like the one led by Baba Ramdev," Prasad told Times Now channel.

  

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