As the UPA battles the political shocks that its handling of the Ramdev rally has evoked, there is a growing controversy over a letter that Baba Ramdev's aides wrote before the fast began. Union Minister Kapil Sibal says the letter had agreed to call off the fast even before it began, acknowledging the progress in talks. But speaking to NDTV, Ramdev's aide Devender Sharma, who was part of the talks with the government, says Ramdev wrote the letter because the government was brow beating them into cancelling the dharna. Calling it a legitimate tactical move that fooled the government, the Ramdev camp now claims that without the letter, their protest would have been cancelled.
