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LUCKNOW/ NEW DELHI: The situation following the police lathi-charge on followers of yoga expert Ramdev on June 4/5 midnight has raised hopes in the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh that they could create an anti-government atmosphere akin to the “JP” movement of 1975 in the months preceding the Emergency that eventually led to the defeat of the Congress in 1977.
And this JP Movement of BJP would be lead by Mr. B.S. Yediyurappa, the BJP CM of Karnataka at the national level while he would be supported by his Ministerial Colleagues, G Janardhan Reddy and G Karunakar Reddy and a BJP MLA Raj Khurana, Ministers, Manoranjan Kalia, Swarna Ram, Tikshan Sood, Luxmi Kanta Chawla and Mohan Lal. Arunesh Shakar and Sukhpal Singh Nannu, both Chief Parliemenary Secretaries of Punjab, BJP MLA Bharat Bhushan from J&K and several
LUCKNOW/ NEW DELHI: The situation following the police lathi-charge on followers of yoga expert Ramdev on June 4/5 midnight has raised hopes in the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh that they could create an anti-government atmosphere akin to the “JP” movement of 1975 in the months preceding the Emergency that eventually led to the defeat of the Congress in 1977.
As senior party leaders proceeded to Rajghat on Sunday evening to lodge their strong protest against “police atrocities” on Ramdev's followers, BJP president Nitin Gadkari and several leading lights of the sangh parivar made it quite clear they intended to step up the confrontation with the government. While some said the situation was akin to the Emergency, others went a step further, comparing what happened in the early hours of Sunday to British-led police action in pre-Independence at Jallianwala Bagh. Veteran party leader L.K. Advani also called for an emergency session of Parliament to discuss the Ramdev crisis.
The BJP's stridency is likely to confirm the Congress party's fears that the sangh parivar had fully underwritten Baba Ramdev's campaign.
On Saturday, the RSS links were more than evident, with “sadhvi” Rithambra, famous for her communally poisonous tongue, sharing the dais next to Ramdev at the Ramlila maidan before the police action.
Among the yoga guru's backroom advisers are the former BJP ideologue Govindacharya and the former Intelligence Bureau chief, Ajit Doval, who is a supporter of the BJP.
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