Baba Ramdev is India's most popular yoga guru Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev has decided to go ahead with a hunger strike beginning Saturday in protest against corruption.
His decision came after talks with the government on withdrawing the fast failed.
Baba Ramdev says his fast is to protest against illegal funnelling of wealth overseas by Indians.
The proposed fast follows April's hunger strike by activist Anna Hazare demanding tough anti-corruption laws.
Anna Hazare ended a 96-hour hunger strike, after the government agreed to all of his demands.
Baba Ramdev was one of the high-profile supporters of the April protest which forced the government to change the way its new anti-corruption law was being drawn up.
Now the yoga guru, who runs a huge yoga and health empire, says he will begin his own "fast unto death" as part of his campaign to bring back the illicit money - or "black money" as it is called in India - stashed in banks abroad.
"India's money stashed abroad should be declared the wealth of the nation. And the act of stashing away illegally got money in foreign banks should be declared a crime against the state," Baba Ramdev told Tehelka magazine in a recent interview.
"The nation's wealth stashed in foreign banks should be brought back by India which should sign on to the UN convention against corruption."
The US-based group Global Financial Integrity has said that India has lost more than $460bn in such illegal flight of capital since Independence.
Almost three-quarters of the illegal money that comprises India's underground economy ends up outside the country, it said in a report last year.
Authorities say the government is taking measures to bring back the illegal money, but there are difficulties in sharing the information because of confidentiality treaties between countries.
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