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Baba Ramdev Riding on Sympathy Wave Now
Updated : Jun 6, 2011
Anna Hazare, the original crusader against corruption and someone who was beginning to feel a bit uneasy with Ramdev's fellow campaigners, has now come out in his support. "There might have been some faults with Baba Ramdev's agitation but at midnight , beating up people - women, children and elderly - is a blot on democracy," Hazare said. He announced that he would sit on a day-long fast at Jantar Mantar on June 8. The newly-forged sympathy among civil society towards Ramdev Baba means that the government will now have to contend with a stronger opposition on its contentious proposal to keep the PM and higher judiciary outside the jurisdiction of the proposed Lokpal bill. There is a possibility that Baba, so far ambivalent on whether PM should be within the purview of Lokpal, may now support the Hazare group.