Press Trust of India Posted online: Sunday, January 08, 2006 at 1601 hours IST
Agartala, January 8: The CPM general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday said party MP Brinda Karat's allegations against Swami Ramdev has the full support of the party and its trade union wing CITU.
He said the questions she raised about the formulation of the ayurvedic medicine sold by Swami Ramdev and the labour relation in the factory where the medicines are made are not her individual opinion. They are as much of the CPM's as the CITU's.
Karat, who arrived in Agartala to address a rally of his party's peasant wing, said hailing from Kerala, he knew what strict regulations went into making a herbal preparation. But, in India most of the ayurvedic medicines sold were not prepared under the regulations that were required, he alleged.
Asked if he was aware that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had offered to resign in the wake of the party's strong oppositon on the Indo-US joint military exercise at Kalaikunda air base in West Midanapore district in West Bengal in November, Karat said he was hearing it for the first time.
"This is for the first time, I am hearing such news that the Prime Minister had offered to quit," Karat said when he was asked to comment on the news that appeared in some vernacular dailies quoting a national web-site.
