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CPI condemns attack on offices
CPI condemned the attack on its offices in the national capital and Lucknow by the followers of Swami Ramdev.
CPI on Thursday condemned the attack on its offices in the national capital and Lucknow by the followers of Swami Ramdev.
"What the followers of Ramdev are doing is nothing but sheer violation of the law of the land. It needs to be condemned squarely. So-called godmen and gurus are not above law, and not above disclosures about their business. The obvious instigators behind the attack must be caught," the CPI Central Secretariat said in a statement in New Delhi.
The party said if the allegation levelled by CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat, who is also a Rajya Sabha member, were found to be true, necessary action should be taken against the pharmacy at Haridwar.
Karat has accused the guru, who hosts a yoga show on television, of using his TV show popularity for selling "adulterated" drugs to his followers.
But the Swami, who denies any wrongdoing, says he is open to any inquiry into the contents of his ayurvedic drugs.
