Ramdev’s stir from October 2

Before the Centre could even think that yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s agitation had fizzled out, the activist announced on Saturday that his third round of anti-Congress protest will begin on October 2.

The protest that will target assembly  elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh will continue up to the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. The yoga guru’s announcement came in the midst of the law agencies tailing him for disproportionate assets.

“People will give a suitable answer to the  Congress (for targeting us). What will it do to us when it is on a path of dissolution?” Ramdev said at a press conference here. Ramdev did not specify the location for his campaign.

Even though Baba Ramdev refused to say in unequivocal terms, his caustic comments made it clear that his alliance with anti-graft activist Anna Hazare was long over.

Initially, the yoga guru maintained that he was not on a collision course with erstwhile Team Anna. However, he later said: “The media only claimed that when I came (to Jantar Mantar for Hazare’s agitation), so did the crowd, and when I left, so did the crowd.”

Ramdev again trained his guns on the Congress over the coal block allocation issue.

He, however, refused to point a finger at the BJP saying presently the Congress was shying away from its responsibility to punish those who are corrupt.