On an election campaign in favour of Narendra Modi, yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Thursday claimed that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has lost public support and the Arvind Kejriwal-led party was now finding ways to join hands with the BJP.
“Kejriwal couldn’t fetch even 2,000 people at Varanasi in the rally few days back. His political base is shifting towards BJP now. His followers are joining BJP and those who still remain would move towards other parties. Kejriwal himself has lost his public support and he is keen to join BJP,” claimed Ramdev, in a Press conference here.
Asked whether he would mediate for Kejriwal to join BJP, if required, Yoga guru said, “If Kejriwal is ready to come with Modi, I would certainly mediate for him.” On AAP, Ramdev said it had no ideology, policies and principles. “They are not clear, whether they are rightist, leftist or communist. Neither their ideology is clear nor their policies, they do not know about the economic policies, foreign policy and agriculture policy. Their sole agenda is to malign Modi,” alleged Ramdev.
To a query whether he had joined BJP, Ramdev said “I haven’t joined BJP, yet I have offered my followers, my organisation, strength and my resources everything to Modi for his success.”
Ramdev said that the anti-national forces and terrorist elements do not want Modi to capture power. “A fear psychosis is being created that if Modi will come, communal riots will break out in the country. They keep on raking the Gujarat riots issue, which were not engineered by Modi as is being told by some people,” he said.
He said the Congress and some other parties were trying their level best to stop the Gujarat Chief Minister from becoming the next Prime Minister, “but the more they oppose him, the stronger he is emerging”.
Ramdev said despite being a non-political personality, he had received a number of threats from different people to stop his campaign against the Congress, “but I told them that for me country comes first and I don’t care for my life”.
Slamming the Congress candidate from Chandigarh and former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, he said the “corruption taint” on him has not been washed no matter what he says in his defence. “He remains a blot on Chandigarh’s face, as far as the politics is concerned,” he said.
Ramdev, who was here to support BJP candidate Kirron Kher, claimed that a “Modi wave” was blowing across the country and Congress would barely be able to get just 50 seats in the country in the lok Sabha polls while the “NDA would touch 300 mark”.
“Today, the country under the Congress rule is passing through a phase of crises. The situation is worse than what was prevailing even at the time of the British rule,” he said.
Kher, who was also present in the press conference along with Chandigarh BJP President Sanjay Tandon and former BJP MP from here Satya Pal Jain, alleged that Congress has always pursued the “divide and rule policy” for petty political gains.
“The country needs a strong and decisive leadership, which Modi can provide,” she said.