New Delhi: Yoga Guru Ramdev has accused the UPA government of witch hunt after it was announced that his trust Patanjali Yogpeeth's charitable status will be withdrawn. Ramdev claimed that he is being targetted because of his anti-corruption movement against the UPA.
"Just because we speak against corruption and blackmoney, the Congress puts dirty allegations on us. We have put all our financial details regarding our trusts on our website. Why doesn't the Congress do the same," asked Ramdev.
The Income Tax department found that while the income of the trust was over Rs 72 crore, it had claimed its income is nil.
The bank transactions of the yoga guru's trust are also under scrutiny and the source of this money which came from Dubai is under probe too....
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07:32 AM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: The government will set up 14 more Income Tax Overseas Units (ITOUs) to deal with the menace of blackmoney and keep a tab on illegal routing of funds from abroad and parking money in foreign countries. The Finance Ministry has recently sent a detailed proposal in this regard to the Ministry of External Affairs along with the names of the countries where these ITOUs would be made operational....
04:26 PM, Aug 15, 2012
New Delhi: Taking on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue of corruption, Yoga guru Ramdev has asked the government to act on his demand by Sunday evening or else face a big revolution across the country. Ramdev said that he will announce his next move at 5 pm on Sunday evening. "The Prime Minister should act on our demands by evening. Otherwise message will go that he is not...
12:32 PM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev is set to make a major announcement on the next step of his agitation on Sunday. Ramdev had deferred by a day the "big" announcement on the next course of his agitation on blackmoney and Lokpal Bill as former Army chief General VK Singh is expected to share the stage with him at Ramlila Maidan where Ramdev has been protesting for the past four...
08:10 AM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: Baba Ramdev's symbolic three-day fast at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi comes to an end on Saturday. However, on Friday Ramdev claimed that he would not leave his agitation until the government responded to his demands. Thousands of people have been camping at the Ramlila Maidan for the last two days and more crowds are expected on Saturday. On the second day of his fast, the yoga guru on...
08:46 AM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: Undisclosed income of Rs 49,325 crore has been detected in the country in the last three years while tax evasion of Rs 600 crore has been found on inputs from abroad under multi-pronged efforts to check blackmoney menace, government said on Friday. The information has been contained in a 13-page fact-sheet released by the Finance Ministry in an apparent bid to blunt the campaign by yoga guru Ramdev,...
04:29 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said yoga guru Ramdev had the right to voice his opinion on any issue in a democratic set up. The yoga guru had been pro-active in raising several issues of national importance such as blackmoney, Kumar said on Thursday. Every individual in the country had the right to voice his/her opinion or campaign on any issue within the country's democratic set up. "Baba...
01:36 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Ghaziabad: The BJP on Thursday said it is ready to provide active support to Yoga guru Ramdev's campaign against black money stashed abroad if he asks for it. "BJP has provided moral support to both Anna Hazare's and Ramdev's campaigns in the past and is even ready to lend active support to the yoga guru's stir if he approaches the party for it," former BJP president Rajnath Singh said. Any...
07:44 AM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna on Sunday said it was yet to get an invite from yoga guru Ramdev to join his indefinite protest against blackmoney which begins in New Delhi this Thursday. "We have not received any invite yet. When it (invite) comes, we will see," Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal said. His comments came when asked whether Team Anna will attend Ramdev's protest. The comments assume significance against the...
08:22 PM, Aug 05, 2012
Pune: Ahead of their proposed protests in Delhi, Anna Hazare and yoga guru Ramdev on Tuesday launched an attack on the UPA government accusing it of not showing enough resolve in tackling corruption and bringing back black money stashed away abroad. Hazare and Ramdev said they will support each other in the fight. Team Anna is launching an indefinite protest from July 25 in Jantar Mantar while Ramdev's protest starts...
01:01 PM, Jul 17, 2012
In an interview to CNN-IBN, Ramdev defended his strategy of not naming individuals in his campaign against blackmoney. ...
06:51 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: The experiment by Baba Ramdev and Team Anna to join hands against corruption failed to elicit huge response with very few people turning up at the fast venue at Parliament Street in New Delhi on Sunday. Ramdev's prediction that thousands of supporters will gather in other cities hasn't also quiet materialised. Some support was, however, witnessed in cities like Lucknow, Patna and Bangalore. There also seems to be...
07:00 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: The experiment to join hands and fight corruption between Baba Ramdev and Team Anna seems to have failed, with Arvind Kejriwal storming out of the agitation venue a short while earlier. Baba Ramdev has taken objection to Kejriwal naming MPs in his speech. Ramdev said the fight against graft was not against individuals. "Arvind Kejriwal should not have taken names. It could create controversy. Please don't see it...
02:41 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Terming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh an "honest person", yoga guru Ramdev on Sunday asked him to make his Cabinet "corruption free." He threatened the government with a "fight to the finish" by August for bringing back black money stashed away abroad as also against corruption. "The Prime Minister was forced to give statement on illegal mining. We all know that Manmohan Singh is an honest person and we...
11:13 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare and yoga guru Ramdev on Sunday began their day-long fast at Jantar Mantar against corruption and blackmoney stashed abroad. "Manmohan Singh was forced to give statement on Illegal mining. We all know that the prime minister is a honest person and we all respect him. But people expect him to make his Cabinet corruption free," Ramdev said. Earlier, Anna and Ramdev visited the memorial...
09:59 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of his joint fast with Anna Hazare against UPA government on corruption on Sunday, yoga guru Ramdev threatened the government with a fight to finish by August for bringing back black money stashed abroad. As he headed to Rajghat from Tikri Kalan on Delhi border before reaching the dharna spot of Jantar Mantar, Ramdev said the economic situation in the country is very bad as the rupee...
08:59 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and social activist Anna Hazare will on Sunday sit in the capital on a day-long fast against corruption and black money stashed abroad. Sunday's protest at Jantar Mantar is also likely to see Ramdev announcing his strategy with regard to the 2014 General Elections. "The people are with us. They will leave their homes and face the hot weather to support us. The agitation...
07:30 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazara will be arriving in Delhi on Saturday, a day ahead of his day-long fast against corruption alongwith yoga guru Baba Ramdev at Jantar Mantar. Anna and Ramdev are expected to meet later in the day. Ramdev had earlier claimed that their anti-corruption rally will begin in New Delhi and proceed to other parts of the country. Both Anna and Ramdev on Friday had trained...
08:12 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Jind: Yoga guru Ramdev on Friday accused the central government of targeting anti-corruption crusaders in the country. "The government has targeted people who have raised their voice against rampant corruption and I am no exception," he told reporters after a two-day yoga camp at Arjun stadium in Jind. Ramdev said he has been served several notices since he started the crusade against blackmoney. "I do not fear the notices and...
10:08 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Launching a new tirade against government on the issues of blackmoney and corruption, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Friday announced that he will undertake a symbolic protest along with social activist Anna Hazare on June 3. He said that his nationwide agitation will start from May 1. He also warned that the country will see a bigger moment from August. "We need two andolans (moments) to bring back...
02:35 PM, Apr 20, 2012
