Yoga Unites Indian Politicians

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Swami Ramdev unites Congress, BJP through yoga

By Deepak Mahaan in Jaipur

Friday, 22 April , 2005, 15:09

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He's worked out a miracle that even Lal Krishna Advani and Sonia

Gandhi have

failed to achieve till date!

 

Swami Ramdev united the treasury and opposition members of Rajasthan

Vidhan

Sabha into one cohesive team on Friday. This left people astounded.

 

He is not forming a political party of his own. Instead, he is now on

a

different mission. He wants the elected representatives of the people

to learn

Yoga so that they can contribute effectively to development of

society.

 

Therefore, he took a class for Rajasthan MLAs within the precincts of

the Vidhan

Sabha to help them improve their minds and bodies with Pranayam

exercises.

 

Unlike the noisy scenes witnessed day in and day out, this session saw

legislators attentive and obedient to the instructions of the Swami

and it was

amusing to see senior politicians working out the various maneuvers.

 

In an invigorating session, many an obese girth had difficulty

carrying out the

stretching and bending exercises. But despite obvious discomfort, no

member

raised any point of order nor staged a walk out since they all

realised Swami

Ramdev was clearly aiming to help the MLA's improve their well being

in more

ways than one.

 

At the session, which saw amity and bonhomie cutting across party

lines, Swami

Ramdev opined that "Yogic exercises would not only improve their lung

power but

also make their attitude positive" and they would respond to issues

with

greater care and sensitivity.

 

The hour-long exercises may or may not have done much good but it

clearly

benefited the Swami who made the MLA's loosen their purse strings. To

a fervent

appeal for building a yoga centre in Jaipur, the MLA's promised

generous

donations from their respective MLA funds and for once, the treasury

and

opposition benches were in near unanimity that Yogic exercises had

been greatly

helpful.

 

While B.D Kalla, President Rajasthan Congress & Leader of the

opposition,

believed "Yoga would help release tension of politics, making it less

burdensome," Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje felt "it would give

greater

strength to every legislator to do good, creative work in the

legislature as

well as outside it."

 

Though politics has always been an uncertain and bitter game, for a

change, this

"Vidhan Sabha session" ended on a happy note with a "laughter

exercise."

 

And why not since all of them decided to give their salaries a raise

at the

expense of the taxpayer and passed the bill without a murmur.