Reach out and rein in

The UPA Government reached to Baba Ramdev and also reined him in. On both counts, they also exceeded the limits.The meeting of four senior most cabinet ministers with Yoga Guru Ramdev and his forcible eviction from Ramlila ground, where he had sat on hunger strike for retrieval of black money stashed in foreign banks,was necessiated due to the importance of the issue on one hand and apprehension of law and order problem as the number of his supporters was swelling and it also increasingly appeared that he was becoming a puppet in the hands of a political party known for disturbing communal harmony of the nation on the other. The UPA Governmenmt reached out to him in the first place because of their sensitivity to the issue of corruption and black money, which was construed by Baba and his political sympathisers as the weakness of the government. Though the way Delhi police descended on Ramlila ground in midnight and lifted Baba from there and chased away all his supporters is definitely an attack on fundamental and democratic right of the people that puts the government in the dock, Baba too must not have crossed the limit. The entire nation has utmost respect for Baba Ramdev as India is known for respecting the experties of all and faith of all religions but at the same time the government is accountable for maintaining peace and law and order and for that matter it had to act.There are no two opinions on the view that in democracy it is our right to hold protest in a peaceful way. But it is also a fact that with right follows the responsibility. Ramdev Baba failed to understand responsibility. He had taken permission for Yoga Ashan, peaceful protest and hunger strike with his followers numbering 5000. The number of his supporters reached approximately 50, 000 as according to Delhi police. That is why Delhi being the national capital, it is the first and foremost duty of the law enforcing agencies to maintain law and order at all costs. A Delhi police officer had gone to handover the letter of cancellation of his permit to hold protest. As Baba Ramdev’s ambition shot up to see the massive number of his supporters, he back tracked on his promise to the government. He had made promise of ending his protests by Saturday evening. Instead, he and on inciting his supporters against the government. Under the circumstance prevailing at Ramlila ground,it became very necessary for the government to rein him in. That only the UPA government did in the midnight.