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Indian Yoga Guru Ramdev Fasts Against Corruption
Issue 23, June 05, 2011
BBC NEWS, SOUTH ASIA
June 4, 2011: Popular Indian yoga guru Ramdev has started an indefinite fast in a bid to prompt the government to enact hard-hitting anti-corruption Act. Yoga guru Ramdev wants the government to recover "black money" held in foreign bank accounts, and called for the death penalty for corrupt government officials.
If "black money" paid in bribes were recovered, he told supporters in Delhi as he began his fast, "no one will be hungry, uneducated, unemployed".
India's government has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals. But despite the intervention of four federal ministers on Friday, Yoga guru Ramdev could not be convinced to call off what he described as his "fast unto death".
