Baba Ramdev Arrested On March to Parliament

New Delhi: Baba Ramdev was arrested along with his supporters when they tried to march towards Parliament on an anti-Congress plank demanding immediate steps to bring back black money and to protest against corruption.

Baba Ramdev was arrested near the Ranjit Singh flyover, about three kms away from Parliament, under Delhi Police Act provisions for preventive custody when he ordered thousands of his followers to march towards Parliament House.

With Government ignoring his protest and refusing to engage with him, Baba Ramdev had been threatening to announce his future strategy since Saturday.

Police had marshalled a number of buses to take away the yoga guru and his supporters from near the Ramlila Maidan in central Delhi, the venue of his fast protest since Thursday after BJP President Nitin Gadkari and JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav addressed the gathering extending support to him on Monday morning.

Addressing the gathering, Mr. Gadkari told Baba Ramdev that he was “not alone” in his fight and that his party had disrupted Parliament on the issue of black money stashed away in foreign shores.

“Delhi Police is a puppet in the hands of the Central Government. We will not do anything that disrupts peace. We wanted to march towards Parliament in a peaceful manner to make our voices heard. But they are detaining us,” he told his supporters, asking them not to court arrest.

“Our intention is not to disrupt peace. We will cooperate with the police and go according to the law. We have respect to the law of the land,” Baba Ramdev said, before he was taken away by police from atop his vehicle to a bus

As his supporters blocked the entire stretch of the flyover, Baba Ramdev popped out of the bus window and appealed to them to make way for the vehicle to move.