02 June,2011 07:48 AM IST | | Agencies
Rejecting pleas of four Union ministers, led by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who met him at the Delhi airport yesterday, yoga guru Baba Ramdev said he will go ahead with his planned fast against corruption and black money stashed abroad.
"The agitation from June 4 will spread from Delhi's Ramlila Maidan to 624 districts in the country and, on the first day itself, more than one crore people will fast and participate in the satyagraha," Ramdev told reporters at the airport after meeting the ministers for nearly two-and-a-half hours.
Besides Mukherjee, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahay met Ramdev at the airport.
Top officials led by Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar also took part in the meeting.
Ramdev said the first round of talks with the government was "positive", adding that more rounds were likely.
Earlier, Sibal said Ramdev raised "very important" issues during the talks.
"We met Baba Ramdev just after 1 pm...the conversation went on for almost two-and-a half hours. During the conversation, Swami Ramdev ji raised a broad range of very important and significant national issues," Sibal said.
"We listened to him. We also prima facie responded to him and we will meet each other and have another dialogue in the next couple of days," he said.
"I am sure that as we are a responsive government, we will take up all those issues which were raised and this is all I have to say as of now," Sibal added.
