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his book is about The Baba as Property Grabber with
a propensity for making his Benefactors disappear -
Or perhaps the protege whose benefactors have a
tendency to die or disappear mysteriously ,
And whose proximity to the buxom- looking Nepalese
with the false passport Acharya Balkrishna can give you
many ideas
Guru Shankar Dev of Kripalubagh Ashram at Kankhal
in Haridwar disappears from Haridwar in 2007 after
having handed over Ashram to Ramdev Balkrishna
and Karamveer in 1995 itself in return for getting it
freed from difficult renters. Ramdev is in Chicago
and has no time to come back and try to find him
Close friend / Partner Karamveer , to whom
Guru Shankardev had originally wanted to hand
over the Kripalubagh Ashram and his own legacy,
mysteriously disappears from Haridwar in 2005
Benefactor / Partner Astha Channel Chief Kirit Mehta
is intimidated into handing over the Channel to the Baba
Sanskar Channel Chief Kabra is also forced to hand over
majority shares to the Baba
Vaidya Yoganand , original licence holder of the Divya Pharmacy
part of the Patanjali Ashram , is mysteriously murdered
Rajiv Dixit who introduces RamDev into Swadeshi Jagran and BJP
politics in 2008 and with whom he founded the Bharat Swabhiman
Andolan is found mysteriously dead on his 42 nd Birthday in an Arya
Samaj guest house in Bemetara in Chattisgarh in 2010; his body is brought
to Haridwar and got cremated without allowing a post-mortem by Ramdev
And now Priyanka Pathak- Narayan who researched and wrote this
biography of Ram Kishen Yadav alias Kaaniaa alias Baba Ramdev and her
publisher are sued by Ramdev and the book is not allowed to be released
distributed or sold to the public
How very interesting!
But then there are so many other stories circulating of the Yadav Baba's
proximity to Mulayam Singh Yadav and Subroto Roy Sahara and the
laundering of their ill gotten wealth , from the heyday of the Samajwadi
Party's honeymoon with the Amar Singh - Jayaprada, Amitabh Bacchan-.
Jaya Bhaduri- Anil and Tina Ambani couple -trios- who will tell those
stories ?
You've certainly come a long way from being the good- for- nothing
hayseed of village Said Alipur in Haryana , haven't you, Mr Ram Kishen
Yadav alias Baba Ramdev ji ?
50 | May 2018 | www.smartgovernance.in
Godman to Tycoon
(The untold story of
Baba Ramdev )
By Priyanka Pathak –
Narayan,
250 pages