New Delhi, June 5 : Gandhian activist Anna Hazare Sunday called the police crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his supporters “a throttling of democracy”.
“To protest is not a crime. It only strengthens democracy,” Hazare told reporters here, referring to Ramdev’s hunger strike against corruption and black money that began at the Ramlila ground here Saturday morning.
“But what was the need to send police at the dead of night and beat up people?” he asked, hours after hundreds of police personnel swooped on the protest site and forcibly removed Ramdev and his supporters.
“This is a blot on democracy,” he said.
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