Prominent Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has invited Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh to join his campaign against corruption after retirement
“I invite him,” Ramdev said here before launching a range of consumer ayurvedic products by his company.
Ramdev told the media that the campaign against black money and corruption would be strengthened if more people joined it.
Ramdev also urged the general to attend his yoga camp “to get rid of stress or tension that he has been facing” after raising major corruption charges recently.
“I request the army chief to take the benefit of my yoga camp after retirement to enjoy life free of stress,” Ramdev said.
Meanwhile, the Army Chief is in Nepal to attend the three-day Regional Seminar on Natural Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance.
He strongly dismissed the reports of unexplained troop movements near Delhi in January and termed it “absolutely stupid”.
“This is absolutely stupid,” Singh said when asked to comment on the report.
Army Chief became the epitome of Anti-Corruption struggle when in an interview with The Hindu published on 26 March 2012 he said a lobbyist, whom he did not identify but who was suggested elsewhere to be retired Lieutenant-General Tejinder Singh, offered him a bribe of 14 crore (US$2.79 million) in order to have a tranche of 600 sub-standard vehicles manufactured by Tatra cleared for purchase. In the same interview he also said that he had informed the Defence minister, A. K. Antony, of the matter. According to supporters of Vijay Singh, his decision to inform Antony complied with regulations that make it “the duty of every officer to bring to the notice of his superior, and if the superior is involved, then to the next superior officer, all cases of dishonesty.”