Haridwar:
Baba Ramdev shunned his trademark saffron and arrived at his Patanjali ashram in Haridwar dressed in white on Sunday afternoon. He looked wan and weary as he recounted events leading up to his eviction from Delhi.
Here's a look at some of the key points of Baba Ramdev's speech:
- Faced atrocity for the first time
- Darkest night of my life
- Last night's incident shocking
- It was worse than emergency
- Told cops to stop misbehaving with women supporters but to no avail
- Last night's brutality means Mrs Gandhi doesn't love this nation or its people. How can she be so cruel?
- Government had agreed to all our demands
- Kapil Sibal is the most scheming man ever
- Never thought such an injustice would occur with law-abiding citizens of this free country
- Thinking back to the events of last night sends shivers down my spine
- Yesterday at Ramlila the brutalities inflicted upon people crossed all levels of decency
- Kids weren't spared too. They were dragged and beaten, women too weren't spared
- Cops caught us and treated us like animals. They (cops) used dupatta as a noose. I asked them, are you going to kill me? I'm a human...I've only spoken up against corruption
- I'm not afraid to die. If I was afraid to die, I wouldn't do what I do. But I didn't want to die in this chaos, dying here wouldn't be an act of bravery