{"id":353351,"date":"2025-04-15T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=353351"},"modified":"2025-04-15T09:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:41:58","slug":"rooh-afza-row-digvijaya-singh-demands-action-against-baba-ramdev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rooh-afza-row-digvijaya-singh-demands-action-against-baba-ramdev\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rooh Afza\u2019 Row: Digvijaya Singh Demands Action against Baba Ramdev"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday accused Yoga guru Baba Ramdev of \u201cinciting religious sentiments\u201d in an attempt to increase the sale of his products by \u201cmisleading\u201d the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a written complaint submitted at T. T. Nagar police station in Bhopal, veteran Congress leader alleged that in a video shared from Ramdev\u2019s official social media handle (X), he has used the term \u201cSharbat Jihad\u201d for promoting Patanjali\u2019s latest rose-flavoured sharbat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRamdev has hurt the religious sentiments, and the way he has targeted a particular community may lead to communal violence. He has deliberately tried to create disturbances among the people of different religious communities, and this is an offence under Article 199 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS),\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added, \u201cTherefore, I would request T. T. police to lodge an FIR against Ramdev and take an appropriate action against him,\u201d Digvijaya Singh said in his written complaint filed on Tuesday. Calling Ramdev as \u201cvyapari\u201d baba, Congress leader said the latter has deliberately opposed \u2018Rooh Afza\u2019 sarbat, because its maker belongs to the Muslim community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHamdard company, which produces \u2018Rooh Afza\u2019, is around 100 years old and a trusted brand in the country. Using the religious sentiments for business purposes is an offence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Digvijaya Singh also hit out at the BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government for being biased in allotting lands for Ramdev\u2019s companies in the state. He alleged that the state government has allotted lands worth more than Rs 1000 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMadhya Pradesh government has allocated lands for investment purposes, several years have passed, and no industry has been set up on these lands, which includes 500 acres in Satna, 200 acres in Shivpuri, 150 acres in Jhabua and many other parts of the state. Why BJP government not cancelled the lease of lands allotted to Ramdev\u2019s company?\u201d Singh questioned during a press conference here in Bhopal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, in the video, Baba Ramdev was heard slamming \u2018Rooh Afza\u2019, claiming that a company selling sharbat is using the money earned from it to build mosques and madrasas. He further warned that consuming such products could promote \u201cSharbat Jihad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a company that gives you sharbat, but the money it earns is used to construct madrasas and mosques,\u201d said Baba Ramdev in a video, warning people that, \u201cIf you drink that sharbat, madrasas and mosques will be built. But if you drink this (Patanjali\u2019s rose sharbat), gurukuls and Acharya Kulam will be built and developed, and Patanjali University will expand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday accused Yoga guru Baba Ramdev of \u201cinciting religious sentiments\u201d in an attempt to increase the sale of his products by \u201cmisleading\u201d the people. In a written complaint submitted at T. T. Nagar police station in Bhopal, veteran Congress leader alleged that in a video shared from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":353352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[19534,17881,19533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353354,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353351\/revisions\/353354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/353352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}