Police action against Ramdev shameful: Shiv Sena

Shiv Sena today condemned the police action against Baba Ramdev, terming the yoga guru's forcible eviction from Ramlila grounds as shameful.

"It is shocking that those who were doing peaceful agitation were beaten up and their pandal was vandalised," Shiv Sena spokesperson Neelam Gorhe told PTI.

"We express strong condemnation of the UPA government's 'shaitani raj'," she said.

With talks with the government breaking down, police swooped down on Baba Ramdev and his supporters a little after midnight and removed him from the scene after using tear gas shells and resorted to lathicharge on his supporters to end his day-old indefinite hunger-strike on black money issue.

Ramdev was flown to Dehradun from Delhi by a special plane today.

Party's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said the pre-dawn police sweep at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan was because of the deep hatred Congress has for the saffron colour.

"Just because the colour of Ramdev's robes was saffron, the Congress government took such an action. Otherwise, it would not have dared to take such a step," Raut told reporters here.

He said his party does not believe in the politics of fasting.

But Ramdev was conducting his agitation peacefully, Raut said adding, "My party condemns such kind of high handedness by authorities in the cover of darkness."