By IANS,
New Delhi: Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday said the government would hold the next round of talks with yoga guru Baba Ramdev Friday to convince him to cancel his planned hunger strike for effective efforts to curb rampant corruption in India.
“I am told that they have agreed to meet again June 3 to continue the discussions and I will advise everyone to observe restraint,” Chidambaram told reporters after Ramdev rejected the government’s plea to cancel his fast.
Four central ministers, led by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, met Ramdev at the airport here. But the guru said he would go ahead with his planned fast from Saturday against corruption and black money stashed abroad.
The guru’s fast is planned in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan and he has claimed that he would be joined by people in all the 624 districts across the country.