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Congress slams Baba Ramdev for targetting PM | The Congress Party on Sunday hit out at yoga guru Baba Ramdev for criticizing Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, saying that the nation would not accept the defaming of established institutions. "Annaji and Ramdevji should understand that in the name of fighting
corruption, if they want to destroy the established institutions or defame the
institutions, then the country would not accept it," said senior Congress leader
Harish Rawat. To a poser on the FDI is also being termed as black money by Baba
Ramdev, Rawat said: "Then wherever the foreign investment is being done or any
country or any country which welcomes foreign investment, means that the economy
of those countries are running on black money, whether it is China or any other
country." "Our economy needs investment and we want foreign investment, this is
the reason that the government proposed to open FDI in multi-retail sector," he
added. Baba Ramdev, who is presently sitting on a daylong joint fast along with
veteran social activist Anna Hazare at the Parliament Street here, earlier today
said the Prime Minister must keep his Cabinet clean. "The Prime Minster should
not just be honest himself, he should be democratically, constitutionally honest.
Mr. PM you must keep your cabinet ministers honest too," he told a gathering of
around 5,000 people present at the Parliament Street to support his cause. Further
taking on the UPA Government, Baba Ramdev said: "The ruling party says the country
doesn't run by protests, laws are not made on the streets. They say they are representatives
of the people... we say the law of the land says the people are supreme... We
have laws that were foisted on us by our British rulers...we need new swadeshi
laws." "If netas are not corrupt, why are they shying away from making a strong
Lokpal Bill," he added. Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare began their daylong fast against
corruption at the Parliament Street here earlier this morning against corruption
and for their demand for a stronger Lokpal Bill. Both Baba Ramdev and Hazare,
who will highlight the demand for the return of black money stashed away by Indians
abroad during their fast, visited Mahatma Gandhi's memorial at Rajghat earlier
this morning. The two spent some time meditating at Rajghat. Baba Ramdev also
visited the nearby Shahid Park . This is for the first time that Baba Ramdev and
Hazare are sitting on a joint fast. Team Anna members Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi
and Manish Sisodia will be joining Hazare and Ramdev during today's fast.
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