Ramdev comes out in support of protesting wrestlers, says Brijbhushan must be put behind bars

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Yog guru Ramdev has come out in open support of wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar for several weeks...

Not mincing his words, Ramdev lashed out at Brijbhushan Sharan Singh, saying that the wrestling federation chief must be put behind bars...

"The allegations of harassment leveled at the wrestling federation chief and for the wrestlers of the country to sit in protest at the Jantar Mantar is extremely shameful..

In Rajasthan's Bhilwara for three-day Yog Shivir, an agitated Ramdev, when asked about Brijbhushan not being arrested even after an FIR was registered against him, said, "I can only give a statement..

I am not mentally or intellectually handicapped, I do have a vision for the country," the yog guru said.. "When I make statements from a political viewpoint, the matter turns slightly topsy turvy and there is a thunderstorm," Ramdev, who had often been under media glare for his statements in the past, said..

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