New Delhi: The Congress is up in arms against the allocation of land for Baba Ramdev's proposed Patanjali Yogpeeth and herbal park in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh.
As part of their protest, Congress legislators on Tuesday boycotted Ramdev's yoga training session that had been organised for MLAs and officials of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly.
The yoga session — conducted at the Assembly in Bhopal — was organised to teach exercises to deal with tension, inculcate positive thinking and develop a healthy body.
The Congress alleges that the move to acquire 1618 acres in Jabalpur for the Yogpeeth would displace over 10,000 people. "We have nothing against Baba Ramdev. He could have been given land without displacing people," PTI quoted Congress legislature party spokesman Sajjan Singh Verma as saying.
He added that none of the Congress legislators were present during the nearly 90-minute yoga session.
It was on Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's initiative that Ramdev had agreed to the establishment of a branch of yog-peeth in Jabalpur. However, the yoga guru had agreed to set up the institute only if the state government extended a helping hand in the form of land and other amenities.
Meanwhile, the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday issued notices to the state government over a proposed allotment of land to Ramdev.
The notice came in wake of a petition filed against the proposed land allotment by advocate SS Patel on behalf of local residents Rewashankar Upadhyay, Dileep Yadav and others.
A division bench, comprising justices Deepak Verma and RS Mishra, asked the government and district officers to submit a reply to the petition within three weeks.
Patel said that it was improper to allot a two km long stretch on the Narmada Ghat in Jabalpur district, which was used by local villagers for grazing animals, to Ramdev.
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