Chidambaram says Ramdev is an agent of RSS

NewDelhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday accused the Sangh Parivar of propping up Baba Ramdev and said that the yoga guru is an agent of RSS.

 

"Who is behind Baba Ramdev? We go back to March, 2011 at a meeting in Putthur in Karnataka, the Akhil Bhartiya Prathinidhi Sabha, the apex body of RSS decided to organise support of all individuals and institutions that were ranged in the fight against corruption. On April 7, the RSS announced the formation of an anti corruption front which had Baba Ramdev as its patron," said Chidambaram in an interview.

 

 

The Home Minister also blamed the civil society for undermining Parliamentary democracy.

"I support civil society speaking up and raising its voice, but I don't support elected representatives leading their obligations and responsibilities to civil society representatives. Let's remember, that the foundation of this country is Parliamentary democracy. I think sections of the media for reasons which I cannot spell out are engaged in competitive, populist coverage of these movements. This undermines Parliamentary democracy. When someone challenges the Finance Minister to a debate on television, he misses the fact that debates take place in Parliament and voters watch Parliament and exercise their franchise from time to time," said Chidambaram.

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.