Author: Deepak Mahaan in Jaipur
Publication: Sify
Date: April 22, 2005
URL: http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13724757
He's worked out a miracle that even
Lal Krishna Advani and Sonia Gandhi have failed to achieve till date!
Swami Ramdev united the treasury
and opposition members of Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha into one cohesive team
on Friday. This left people astounded.
He is not forming a political party
of his own. Instead, he is now on a different mission. He wants the elected
representatives of the people to learn Yoga so that they can contribute
effectively to development of society.
Therefore, he took a class for Rajasthan
MLAs within the precincts of the Vidhan Sabha to help them improve their
minds and bodies with Pranayam exercises.
Unlike the noisy scenes witnessed
day in and day out, this session saw legislators attentive and obedient
to the instructions of the Swami and it was amusing to see senior politicians
working out the various maneuvers.
In an invigorating session, many
an obese girth had difficulty carrying out the stretching and bending exercises.
But despite obvious discomfort, no member raised any point of order nor
staged a walk out since they all realised Swami Ramdev was clearly aiming
to help the MLA's improve their well being in more ways than one.
At the session, which saw amity
and bonhomie cutting across party lines, Swami Ramdev opined that "Yogic
exercises would not only improve their lung power but also make their attitude
positive" and they would respond to issues with greater care and sensitivity.
The hour-long exercises may or may
not have done much good but it clearly benefited the Swami who made the
MLA's loosen their purse strings. To a fervent appeal for building a yoga
centre in Jaipur, the MLA's promised generous donations from their respective
MLA funds and for once, the treasury and opposition benches were in near
unanimity that Yogic exercises had been greatly helpful.
While B.D Kalla, President Rajasthan
Congress & Leader of the opposition, believed "Yoga would help release
tension of politics, making it less burdensome," Chief Minister Vasundhara
Raje felt "it would give greater strength to every legislator to do good,
creative work in the legislature as well as outside it."
Though politics has always been
an uncertain and bitter game, for a change, this "Vidhan Sabha session"
ended on a happy note with a "laughter exercise."
And why not since all of them decided
to give their salaries a raise at the expense of the taxpayer and passed
the bill without a murmur.
