BJP launches nation-wide agitation against crackdown on Ramdev

New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on
Sunday launched a nation-wide 24-hour-long agitation against
police crackdown on yoga guru baba Ramdev's supporters and
corruption even as it asked the government to bring back black
money parked abroad.
Several BJP leaders led by party president Nitin Gadkari
and Parliamentary Party Chairman L K Advani reached Rajghat
amid a massive police bandobast (preparation) to launch the
'satyagraha'.
The decision to hold the agitation was taken at a meeting
of the BJP's national office-bearers here.
"The agitation is against the atrocities committed against
Ramdev and his supporters and against corruption. We had been
raising the issue of bringing back black money. Now we want an
affirmative action," BJP leader Ananth Kumar told reporters.
He dubbed the crackdown as an effort of the government to
hide its "misdeeds" on corruption.
At Rajghat, several party leaders launched an attack on
the UPA government, accusing it of violating democratic norms
in breaking the yoga guru's fast.
They equated last night's police action with Jallianwala
Bagh incident in which several unarmed people were killed in
firing.
Terming the police action on "peaceful and unarmed" people
at Baba Ramdev's hunger strike venue as a "shameful" chapter
in India's democracy, BJP earlier today accused Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi of ordering the
crackdown.