Tuesday 4 February 2014

Ramdev Ups the Bar, Seeks 300 Seats for Narendra Modi

AHMEDABAD: After publically supporting Narendra Modi's candidature for the prime minister's post, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has now announced that his trust will mobilize all its members and followers to vote for BJP and the Gujarat CM.

"I would urge every one of my followers to vote for Narendra Modi in the next Lok Sabha elections. Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust and I have sorted out a plan and we will be mobilizing 50 crore voters across the country so that BJP can get 300 seats," Baba Ramdev said while addressing the media in Ahmedabad.

The work to mobilize the followers would begin from March 1. On March 23 - the martyr day of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru - the trust would be organizing yoga camps across the country.

Ramdev claimed that 10 crore people would be participating in the camp which will be held across the country. Further Ramdev claimed that he would attempt a new Guinness World Record of maximum number of people performing yoga at the same time.

When asked about cow slaughter in Gujarat he, said he would personally discuss the issue with Modi. And if Modi became PM, he would ensure that there is a 100% ban on cow slaughter in the whole country.

Saying that there was internal strife within the Congress, he claimed that some Congressmen had met him and asked him to get Modi to give them a BJP ticket. "These Congress MPs told me that to fight the elections on a Congress ticket meant that they had already lost," he claimed.

Source: TOI

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