The Dilemma of Baba Ramdev

It is the seventh day of his Anshan or voluntary fast. It is sad to say that it is also the seventh day of Baba Ramdev’s deteriorating health and prestige.
Deterioration of his health is obvious, he is not eating anything and since four days, he even refused to take lemon and honey. However, with the alarming notifications of doctors, Baba Ramdev agreed to consume lemon juice and honey.

I am not a fan of Baba Ramdev, I don’t know if Yoga can cure any disease and I don’t care if his alternative drugs will actually help any patient. However, I always felt that he is a strong man and he should be honored. When I heard Baba Ramdev giving interviews earlier on, I used to believe that he may not be very intelligent, but he is certainly confident and explanatory. However, I started realizing that he may be a good orator in front of those who actually trust him and believe that he is a good person, but he is certainly not a good orator against his opponents and those who are willing to malign his reputation at any cost.

I don’t know if Baba Ramdev had any hidden political agenda behind his strike against black money and corruption. What I know is, every ruling politician and every media house of India is certainly against him with a political vendetta.
Indian media was never just and I guess no country enjoys independent and just media coverage of political and actually important news and information. Currently, all major Indian media houses including Times of India, The Hindu, and news channels like Star News, Zee News, IBN7 and others are primarily working on proving that Baba Ramdev is the face of corruption and the government is the good force that is committed to remove corruption. Wow! That is the power of media that it is actually succeeding in proving all this.
This is the scenario of an independent country where the media houses and newspapers are actually allowed to express their truthful views. Yet, none of the newspapers or news channels shows the truth, they keep on beating the wrong and fraudulent bush.

Yesterday, Anna Hazare sat on Anshan to protest against the governmental and police atrocities on the innocent and peaceful protestors who were brutally attacked and beaten by the Delhi police at the mid of the night of 4th June. While it was a protest against government to support Baba Ramdev and all news channels were covering it too, every other news channel and news paper was also flashing news headlines like the aide of Baba Ramdev has a fraudulent passport, and Baba Ramdev has amassed huge money. Another thing that rose in the newspapers was the heading that Now Baba Ramdev plans for violent agitation against government as he plans for creating an army of 11000 people.

As a matter of fact, Baba Ramdev never said that he will support any violent agitation. He only said that he will train some 11,000 people who can apply self-defense procedures against governmental atrocities. Self defense is no crime, but then news channels can make everything a crime.

Recently, the joint team of News Channels, News Papers and Congress government proved that raising voices against corruption is actually a crime. They vilified both Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev along with every person who is associated with their efforts to remove corruption. They vilified Shanti Bhushan, Arvin Kejariwal, and others. Yesterday, they even said that both Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev are faces of RSS and BJP and they are trying to destabilize government.
So you see, according to Congress leaders like Digvijay Singh, Kapil Sibbal, P Chidambaram, Pranab Mukherjee, Sonia Gandhi, and Manmohan Singh, it’s all drama and ploy to destabilize government and it is nothing about efforts to remove corruption.

Today, they played another game. They virtually divided Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev in such a manner that Anna Hazare commented that if he met Baba Ramdev in near future, then he will also be termed as a supporter of violence. I am confident that Anna Hazare knows well that it is a ploy in which Baba Ramdev has been trapped and Anna Hazare will do his best to avoid himself in being trapped like him.
What will be the fate of this agitation against Corruption?

I am least hopeful against any change. Nothing will happen. Congress will draft a Lokpal Bill in a manner which is favorable to it, Anna Hazare will try to revolt, he will fail. About Baba Ramdev, he is already a failure. Nothing will happen on his front. I doubt he will be charged with fake cases of corruption and black money and maybe he will be punished too. As a matter of fact, he is already suffering.
However, we should never lose all hopes. The better would be a divide in Congress itself. Anyways, India will never improve. Why?

There are two reasons.
First is, the news papers and news media always support corruption, government and congress. Everything against Congress is Saffron for them and they hate saffron. Second thing is, Indians people also are not very convinced about their own choices. They also start supporting corruption government and congress whenever Congress leaders starts criticizing any protest against corruption , government and Congress.

The worst will be, a win for Congress in upcoming UP Vidhan Sabha Elections and then a third time win for Congress in 2014 Lok Sabha Elections. Anyways, corruption will remain as it is. And oh yes, Baba Ramdev may reach the ultimate point of his sacrifice. However, government won’t allow him to die and will force feed him. They have already killed the prestige and status of Baba Ramdev, now he is not a peaceful gandhian revolutionary against corruption, rather, the news channels and Times of India claims that he himself is corrupt.
These news channels demand that Baba Ramdev should expose the names of all those who donated money to him. While Baba Ramdev have issued information about the property of all trusts of Yogpeeth, they demand him to open information about all companies associated with him. They don’t want to file an RTI and to check by themselves. They want him to tell them. why?

Because it allows them to say that Baba Ramdev is dubious for longer periods. They will never ask how Congress gets donations for campaigning in elections; they will only say that while corruption is everywhere, but Congress politicians and government is not corrupt, Baba Ramdev is corrupt. Thank god Anna Hazare has no property no money, otherwise he might also have been termed as a corrupt.

Why Indian Media is Critical of Baba Ramdev?

At the evening of fourth of June, when our Home Minister and veteran Congress party leader exposed the letter signed by one of the close followers of Baba Ramdev and implicated that Baba Ramdev was actually trying to fool people while his Anshan or Satyagrah was already fixed, Indian Media and specially Deepak Chourasia of Star News went vehemently against Baba Ramdev, blaming of fixing, fooling and all other things he could.

You might have wondered why he never blamed Kapil Sibbal himself when Mr. Sibbal announced that all complaints against A. Raja were false and there was no corruption in 2G Scam and all the big numbers of lost money as expressed by the CAG committee headed by Murli Manohar Joshi were false?
Well, one may understand that cheap news channels and news reporters like Deepak Chourasia and Star News and many other news channels are easily corruptible by themselves. They will always show that news and in that color, for which they are paid, and since they simply cannot reject the importance of government, they cannot talk against it too.

However, it is not about a few TV news channels or news papers. In fact, all so-called and obviously pseudo-intellectual journalists of India obviously found it easy to dump Ramdev and to support government and its barbaric actions against Ramdev. They will regularly update the nation about the barking words of Diggvijay Singh and they will keep trying to suggest that government was right in beating and nearly killing thousands of innocent and harmless people who gathered in Ram Leela Maidan to support the cause of Baba Ramdev.

Who support Baba Ramdev and Who Criticizes him and Why?

We first analyze the supporters of Baba Ramdev and his criticizers.
Most of the criticizers of Baba Ramdev are those who consider themselves as the great intellectuals of Indian society who can bring great changes in the perception of Indian people. These are the famous journalists, columnists and writers of Indian Newspapers. Irrespective of their own lack of knowledge about economic and administrative aspects of a democratic or any type of government, they will act as if they are the only righteous and intelligent souls of India.

Most of these pseudo-intellectuals have extended their support to Anna Hazare. While mentioning the support for Baba Ramdev, one of the columnist of Times of India said, “he is backed by people who don’t think. They will fast with him, and they will, if given a chance, die with him. And like the misguided terrorist, they will have done so thinking they will go to heaven directly from the Ram Lila grounds. What better way to die than your favourite yoga teacher conducting the final tour from earth to heaven?”

He further said, “Ram Dev has a disciple basis whose core is the naive, intellectually challenged lower middle class masses of rural India, and they run into their mystic millions, as illustrated by the 60 lakh and counting missed calls to volunteer for the Ram Dev movement. This is not the candle brigade that gets into action when socialites are murdered and justice is not done. This is the cattle brigade.”
So you see, these intellectuals think that anyone who is supporting Baba Ramdev is no less than a misguided terrorist, and they are no more than a cattle herd or brigade.

So Hazare fighting/fasting against corruption is ok but Baba Ramdev doing the same is not acceptable. Why is it because supporters of Hazare are urban (and easy to talk to or understand) or more middle class while poor Ramdev's followers are rural or as he has called them ‘cattle’? Another thing just for moment substitute Ramdev's name with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, bingo don’t you get an article that could have been written by any bigoted white racist reporter when Gandhi was leading one of his numerous Satyagrahas. On second thought I don’t think any Englishmen would have stooped so low and exhibited his bias so openly.

While reading such columnists and journalists, what I come to realize is that they are nothing but a group of bigoted hate-mongers and their vile diatribe is nothing but frustrations of sycophants no longer in fashion. They say – “Ram Dev has a disciple basis whose core is the naive, intellectually challenged lower middle class masses of rural India” - I personally know retired Army Generals, serving corporate leaders and many more urban followers who are a far cry from the description you provide. They state - UPA government’s sophisticates like Kapil Sibal and Pranab Mukherjee are desperately seeking to engage in dialogue - Really? Sophisticates? They sure live in a delusional world I must say. Why do they stop short of saying - the learned sage Manmohan Singh and the Goddess incarnate Sonia have been so maligned?

Some people comment that Baba Ramdev is just a eigth-class drop out. They do not realize that even Bill Gates was an eight class drop out. Dhiru Bhai Ambani wasn’t an erudite; even Albert Einstein wasn’t able to clear his German schools. They also do not realize that even Mahatma Gandhi didn’t take birth with all the intelligence required to be a libertarian anti-government and pro-self governance person.
Now check out the intellect of these pseudo-intellectuals.

I, being a libertarian and a proponent of Austrian economy, understand that the call of Baba Ramdev to bring back all the black money stashed in foreign banks will do nothing good for India even if it is returned back. However, none of these so-called erudite and well-educated journalists and politicians like Pranab Mukherjee and Kapil Sibbal understands that.

You know, we don’t need money for better living, we cannot eat currency. What we need is wealth. Even if all the black money is brought back to India, what will happen? As a matter of fact, it will bring inflation and poverty. Why, because it will increase currency, but not the wealth of India.

If increasing currency could remove poverty, why doesn’t Government issues notice to RBI to print a huge amount of currency to be given to all poor to make every poor a millionaire? That will not make them richer. The increase in currency will not increase the area of cultivating land, nor it will increase area of jungles, nor it will increase number of farming tools, machines and tractors, nor it will increase the number of schools and roads and thermo-electric plants. Since the quantity of food grains, medicines, leisure goods and other amenities will remain same, the increased currency will only increase the prices of goods, and it will bring inflation.

It is not like Indian leaders cannot understand this, but they cannot accept it. If they accept this fact, they will actually accept that Indian people doesn’t need government. Because just like the currency printed by government is not wealth, it is also a fact that government cannot produce wealth. It can only destroy wealth as is happening in India and every other country since ages. Every year, a huge quantity of grains is left to spoil in Governmental store houses while many Indians die of hunger and malnutrition, many farmers commit suicide.

So the idea, that bringing back foreign currency will make India rich is typically false. However, isn’t it noble? Not everyone can be an intellectual or intelligent person. Does this make a person lacking his human rights? Baba Ramdev is certainly not as intelligent as Mahatma Gandhi was, yet, he has similar rights as Mahatma Gandhi had or any other person in current world has, he is a human and a noble, respectable Individual. Government’s action against him and his followers at Ram Leela Maidan are certainly condemnable.
Now check out the favoritism of these pseudo-intellectual Indian journalists. They support Anna Hazare and his call for LokPal Bill and they also claim that Anna Hazare is a Gandhian and every Indian should support him as he will improve India and Indian government, he will remove corruption.

It is the biggest proof that all these intellectuals are nothing but big idiots.

Just like the call for bringing black money back in India is useless, the call for Jan LokPal Bill is also useless. Why? Even if Anna Hazare and his civil committee succeeds in bringing Prime Minister, Legal System and All bureaucracy under the surveillance of LokPal Committee, who will check that the Lok Pal himself is not a corrupt? If Prime Minister himself can be a corrupt person or such a person who will compromise with others on their corruption for the sake of his political ruling power, why the civilian LokPal will not get corrupt or bribed?

Why do these idiot journalists and columnists and these respected members of Lok Pal Committee civil society believe that only politicians can get corrupt and not a common men who will be the chairman of Lok Pal Committee?

In fact an omnipotent Lok Pal will soon become a dictator. He will lead India like a dictator and things will go worse and there is no doubt about it. Any person with such huge power to write the fate of anyone in this whole country will certainly become a corrupt dictator.

Do I support Anna Hazare or Baba Ramdev?
I support them as a human being, but I don’t support their calls for Lok Pal Bill or bringing back of black money. I was feeling hurt and crying when I saw Delhi Police beating the supporters of Baba Ramdev, I felt like reaching to Delhi and fighting for the honor of Baba Ramdev, I am a atheist, and I am a slim and healthy person without doing any Yoga, I don't know if Yoga is charismatic or not, but I respect Baba Ramdev for being a human and I believe he is honest at his heart to the core.

Why do I not support their calls for checking governmental corruption? 

Because I know that if there is government, there will be corruption. Being a libertarian, an anarcho-libertarian, I cannot support these good and respectable human beings until they demand for complete freedom, self-governance, Sampoorna Swaraj!

If there is government, there is corruption, bribery, injustice and inequality. To remove corruption, bribery, injustice and inequality, there is only one way, remove government.