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Movement Yaga Guru Baba Ramdev and the Sadhu community has joined hands to launch national wide agitation if the Center Government does not intervene in the saving the holy river Ganga. Baba has warned and has given the time limit of three months to the Central and the State governments through which Ganga passes, to “take concrete actions to save the holy river”. Otherwise he has decided to launch a countrywide agitation for it.

Battle Yoga Guru Ramdev and the community of other Spiritual seers across the country, is the latest to join the ‘warriors’ who are waging a battle against the industry and development lobbies across the country and reluctant state machineries to save India’s dying rivers. With the Baba and the Sadhu community their power has increased a lot and it is being expected that they will purge not only Ganga but many other rivers and lakes of the accumulated filth and breathe a new life into them.

Ganga Raksha Manch The seer told that he is at the forefront of a group, the Ganga Raksha Manch, set up by spiritual heads in Hardwar to press the government to declare the endangered river a national heritage.  Several spiritual leaders like Sri Sri Ravishankar of the Art of Living, Murari Bapu, Asaram Bapu, Ramesh Bhai Ojha, the heads of the Shankaracharya hermitages across the country and along with various scientific and legal experts are the members of the Ganga Raksha Manch. He has their consent in taking it to the streets if the government doesn’t respond to their call

Ganga Expressway He criticized the UP chief minister Mayawati’s mega project, Ganga expressway from Noida to Ballia. Opposition had alleged a land scam behind the Rs 40,000-crore Ballia to Noida Ganga Expressway announced early this year by UP CM Mayawati. Baba Ramdev said that he is not against the development activities only if they will not pollute the holy river. But the proposed plan of construction of residential and shopping along the river Ganga will result only in an increase in the pollution level of the river.

Report A recent study by the Uttarakhand Environment Conservation and Pollution Board had revealed that the level of pollution in the river has reached alarming proportions. Yaga guru urged the Center and the state governments declare Ganga as a national heritage and set up a Save Ganga Authority. That is the only way to keep the purity and sanctity of the holy river, Ganga maintained.