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India's Politically Active Spiritual Gurus
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 22:42 IST |
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Bangalore: There is hardly anything that is not connected to spirituality In India, so does politics. Being apolitical in theory, with millions of followers closely listening to their highly influential words of wisdom and as the numbers swell each day, the spiritual guru's increasingly play a larger role in India's politics. Not just the spiritual values the gurus uphold, but their sturdy hold on the public makes them politically unavoidable and unstoppable.
The journey from a boy who ran away from home at the age of nine to the patriarch of a business empire worth over 
1100 crore was quite long and today, meditating at the serenity of his 750- acre island off the Scottish coast, Baba Ramdev indirectly plays a key role in India's political scene. His political aggressiveness and the radical reformism were well transferred to his followers when he said 'Hang the corrupt' and in his planned militia of volunteers. Expressing his intentions to get into active politics, the yoga guru said he will launch a political party named Bharat Swabhiman to cleanse political system of the country. Baba said he will not contest any elections, but the party would field candidates in all the 543 Lok Sabha seats. Baba Ramdev's agitation against black money and corruption was often criticized for his close ties with RSS.
1100 crore was quite long and today, meditating at the serenity of his 750- acre island off the Scottish coast, Baba Ramdev indirectly plays a key role in India's political scene. His political aggressiveness and the radical reformism were well transferred to his followers when he said 'Hang the corrupt' and in his planned militia of volunteers. Expressing his intentions to get into active politics, the yoga guru said he will launch a political party named Bharat Swabhiman to cleanse political system of the country. Baba said he will not contest any elections, but the party would field candidates in all the 543 Lok Sabha seats. Baba Ramdev's agitation against black money and corruption was often criticized for his close ties with RSS.
