[rtitimes] Fast hasn't ended, they wanted to kill me: Ramdev

Fast hasn't ended, they wanted to kill me: Ramdev TNN & Agencies | Jun 5, 2011, 01.39pm IST
HARDWAR: A visibly emotional Baba Ramdev on Sunday accused the central government of betraying him and trying to kill him.

Upon reaching his ashram in this pilgrim city on Sunday after being evicted from Delhi, he also insisted that his fast against corruption had not ended.

"They wanted to kidnap me and kill me or send me somewhere," a soar throated and at times teary eyed Baba Ramdev said at a press conference in Hardwar.

"My fast has not ended," he said about the hunger strike against corruption which he had launched at the Delhi Ramlila ground Saturday but which was halted by police action on him and his supporters.

He also accused the government and HRD minister Kapil Sibal of cheating him.

"Kapil Sibal is a liar and a cunning person, he cheated and mislead us," he said, adding they were forced into signing the letter.

The yoga guru called the police action at Ramlila ground "inhuman".

"The atrocities over one lakh people were inhuman and barbaric. They did not even spare women and children," Ramdev said. "Despite my pleas, police did not leave women and child but attacked them.

"They wanted to kidnap me and kill me, or send me somewhere".

He also attacked Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi does not love the people of the country," he added, while hitting out at the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson.

"I thought she is not born in this country but is the daughter-in-law of this country, But by ordering attack on one lakh people, she proved she does not love the people (of this country)," he said.

"We will observe black day today and tomorrow across the country to protest the police barbarism," says Ramdev. He also said the government was pressurising him to end his fast and that he was forced to give a letter of consent in the hotel where he met senior ministers.

Earlier, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev was flown on Sunday from Delhi by a special plane after police swooped down on his hunger strike at the Ramlila Maidan in a mid-night operation.

Ramdev, who was initially taken to an undisclosed destination from the protest site, was put into an aircraft by Delhi Police from the Palam Airport this morning, officials said.

On his arrival at the Jolly Grant Airport near Dehradun, Ramdev, who was alone, was received by Uttarakhand government officials, they said.