Baba Ramdev to launch satyagraha against graft

By Indo Asian News Service | IANS – Wed, Apr 20, 2011 11:27 PM IST

Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare(File Photo) 

New Delhi, April 20 (IANS)

 Yoga guru and spiritual leader Baba Ramdev will launch a nationwide people's movement 'Satyagraha against corruption' from June 4, his spokesperson said here Wednesday.

'The movement will begin after he completes his 'Bharat Swabhiman Yatra', a journey of one lakh km which began from Dwarka on September 2 last year and will end at Ujjain (in Madhya Pradesh)  on June 1,' Baba Ramdev's spokesperson S.K. Tijarawala said.

He added that the spiritual leaedr will announce the launch and details of the anti-graft movement April 27

Baba Ramdev will also write a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on three issues -- creating an independent, impartial Lokpal (ombudsman), getting back black money worth over Rs.400 lakh crore stashed in tax havens abroad and replacing the British system of governance, taxation, education, law and order with a 'swadeshi' model.