An Indian yoga guru on hunger strike for the last eight days in protest at government corruption has called off his fast, doctors said on Sunday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
DEHRADUN - AN INDIAN yoga guru on hunger strike for the last eight days in protest at government corruption has called off his fast, doctors said on Sunday.
'Swami Ramdev has ended his fast and we will soon discharge him,' Mr Vijay Dhasmana, the director of the Himalayan Institute of Medical science hospital in the northern town of Dehradun, told AFP.
Ramdev, a popular television yoga guru who is also known as Baba Ramdev, has been under observation at the hospital since Friday after his condition deteriorated mid-week.
He and thousands of followers were evicted from the national capital New Delhi in a police crackdown last Saturday but he continued his protest at his ashram, or religious retreat, near the Hindu holy city of Haridwar.
Mr Subramanian Swamy, president of the opposition Janata Dal (People's Party), said saffron-robed Ramdev had made his point, despite ending his fast.
'Swami Ramdev has achieved his objective and now we welcome this step,' the politician told reporters in Dehradun after the bearded guru sipped juice in the presence of Hindu religious leaders in the hospital. -- AFP
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