New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev continued drumming up political support for his anti-black money campaign. The yoga guru met Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in the capital on Tuesday. This meeting with Mulayam Singh Yadav comes a day after he met TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu and promised a nationwide agitation from August 9.
Chandrababu has pledged support to Ramdev as well as Anna Hazare in the fight against corruption and has organised apolitical campaigns in this regard in Andhra Pradesh.
In order to seek support for his movement against black money, Ramdev has been meeting various political leaders.
Ramdev also met other leaders including Aviation Minister Ajit Singh and BJP President Nitin Gadkari. Ramdev had said that he had also sought appointments with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi to get their support for his movement.
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