New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Saturday alleged that the Congress-led UPA government has been defaming him due to his movement against corruption and demanded that the CBI probe into disappearance of his guru Swami Shankar Dev should be ‘transparent’.
“I have no problem with CBI probe into the disappearance of Swami Shankar Dev. He was my guru. There was no fight between us on property or any issue. The CBI should investigate the matter transparently and search Swami Shankar Dev,” Ramdev said at a press conference here.
He alleged that the Congress governments at the Centre and Uttarakhand were dragging him into the matter as he was raising voice against corruption and black money stashed in foreign banks.
Ramdev said the Congress leaders and spokespersons were alleging that he has killed his guru.
“The Congress is saying that I had pressurised the police to close the case but the case was closed after the Congress government came in Uttarakhand,” the Yoga Guru said.
“If the government has ordered probe into Swami Shankar Dev case then it should also order probe into controversies over the death of Shayama Prasad Mukherjee, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and Lal Bahadur Shastri,” he added.
The Uttarakhand government yesterday recommended a CBI probe into the disappearance of Swami Shankar Dev, founder of yoga guru Ramdev’s Divya Yog Mandir Trust.
The state police began investigating the case on the basis of an FIR lodged by Ramdev’s close aide Acharya Balkrishna at Kankhal police station, Haridwar which said the Swami had gone missing on July 14, 2007.
Local police investigated the case and questioned several local people and ashram inmates. The police then submitted its final report on April 10, 2012 and closed the case.
Ramdev is heading the Patanjali Trust since Shankar Dev’s disappearance. (UNI)