Kapil Sibal On Ramdev

Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court slamming the Delhi Police for its midnight crackdown against supporters of Ramdev, the BJP has held Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union ministers P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal "accountable" for the incident.

"A swami who teaches yoga to the country should not teach us political asanas (poses)" said Kapil Sibal, one of the two senior ministers who were deputed to make peace for the government with Baba Ramdev.The Baba was evicted last night from Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, where 65,000 people had joined him for his "satyagraha" against corruption.The crowd...

For more than 40 years, reformers and other agitators have tried in vain to cleanse India of corruption. They have staged demonstrations, candlelight vigils and protest marches for naught. In Parliament, efforts to create an independent anti-corruption agency began in 1968. It still does not exist. Given this legacy of failure, an unexpected develo...

Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court slamming the Delhi Police for its midnight crackdown against supporters of Ramdev, the BJP has held Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union ministers P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal "accountable" for the incident.

"A swami who teaches yoga to the country should not teach us political asanas (poses)" said Kapil Sibal, one of the two senior ministers who were deputed to make peace for the government with Baba Ramdev.The Baba was evicted last night from Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, where 65,000 people had joined him for his "satyagraha" against corruption.The crowd...

For more than 40 years, reformers and other agitators have tried in vain to cleanse India of corruption. They have staged demonstrations, candlelight vigils and protest marches for naught. In Parliament, efforts to create an independent anti-corruption agency began in 1968. It still does not exist. Given this legacy of failure, an unexpected develo...