KATHMANDU: Dozens of protesters bearing placards that said "Lies will be routed and truth prevail" demonstrated in front of the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu on Monday even as protests erupted in major Indian cities too after Delhi police ousted yoga guru Baba Ramdev from his satyagraha at the Ram Lila maidan in New Delhi on early Sunday.
Police said they had detained some of the people to bring the situation under control but released them after the organisers of the protest agreed to peacefully submit a memorandum to the Indian Embassy as well as the foreign ministry. Officials of the Patanjali Yog Peeth in Kathmandu, its yoga teachers and followers, who included a large number of women, finally led a silent protest rally from the embassy to the foreign ministry to submit memorandums condemning the police highhandedness. Though the followers' bid to take out a candle-light rally in front of the embassy Sunday night was put off, protesters said they would keep up demonstrations in front of it.
Nepal's media has been covering the satyagraha and now the hungerstrike in Hardwar in absorbed interest, just as they had done Anna Hazare's fast earlier. ON Monday, the news of the satyahraha being broken up made it to the front pages of many dailies and was covered by the tlevision channels tenaciously. Ramdev commands a huge fan following in Nepal with hundreds of people swearing by his exercises during early morning TV shows. Started in 2007, the Yog Peeth has now spread over Nepal's 75 districts and runs 27 ayurvedic medicine centres. Last year, Ramdev held four yoga camps in Nepal with the first one in Kathmandu being inaugurated by Nepal's President, Dr Ram Baran Yadav.
Police said they had detained some of the people to bring the situation under control but released them after the organisers of the protest agreed to peacefully submit a memorandum to the Indian Embassy as well as the foreign ministry. Officials of the Patanjali Yog Peeth in Kathmandu, its yoga teachers and followers, who included a large number of women, finally led a silent protest rally from the embassy to the foreign ministry to submit memorandums condemning the police highhandedness. Though the followers' bid to take out a candle-light rally in front of the embassy Sunday night was put off, protesters said they would keep up demonstrations in front of it.
Nepal's media has been covering the satyagraha and now the hungerstrike in Hardwar in absorbed interest, just as they had done Anna Hazare's fast earlier. ON Monday, the news of the satyahraha being broken up made it to the front pages of many dailies and was covered by the tlevision channels tenaciously. Ramdev commands a huge fan following in Nepal with hundreds of people swearing by his exercises during early morning TV shows. Started in 2007, the Yog Peeth has now spread over Nepal's 75 districts and runs 27 ayurvedic medicine centres. Last year, Ramdev held four yoga camps in Nepal with the first one in Kathmandu being inaugurated by Nepal's President, Dr Ram Baran Yadav.
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