Ramdev should be jailed: Mayawati on 'anti-Dalit' remarks

April 26, 2014 18:37

Condemning Ramdev's controversial remarks targeting Rahul Gandhi on his visit to Dalit houses, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati today threatened to launch a country-wide stir against the yoga guru and the Bharatiya Janata Party after the polls, if the saffron party did not take action against him.

The BJP should take immediate action against him (Ramdev), "otherwise after Lok Sabha elections, the BSP would launch a country-wide agitation against this baba, besides BJP and the SP," she said.

Yoga guru Ramdev was today, meanwhile booked by Uttar Pradesh police for his remarks on the Gandhi scion that has drawn flak from various quarters.

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