An April 2015 file photo from France showed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking a selfie with a group of Indian people studying abroad there. India suffered disproportionate selfie-deaths, a study found. (REMY GABALDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
An April 2015 file photo from France showed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking a selfie with a group of Indian people studying abroad there. India suffered disproportionate selfie-deaths, a study found. (REMY GABALDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
SAN FRANCISCO (Diya TV) — While yoga guru Baba Ramdev has celebrated the government’s decision to demonetize Rs 500 and 1,000 currency notes, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s life has been put in the direct line of fire as a result.
Modi is facing threats from India’s drug mafia, terrorists and other economic offenders in the wake of his “historic move,” Ramdev said.
Ramdev further urged the Indian people to do their very best to cooperate with the government, asking those who are suffering to just wait a few more days. The entire exercise of the move will serve ultimately to improve the country’s growing economy, he said.
“By demonetizing Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, Modi has dealt a severe blow to corruption, black money, terrorism and fake currency business…Fake notes were being printed in Pakistan and circulated in India. Phasing out these notes has destroyed the terrorists.
“Due to this move, Modi is now facing threat to life from drug mafia, terrorists and also from those committing economic offenses,” Ramdev told reporters on his arrival at an Indian airport.
He said that even the business of his company, Patanjali Ayurved, has been hit following demonetization. “But people should cooperate with the Center in this endeavor to clean up the system,” he said.
Just hours later on Friday evening, Delhi police received a call about an alleged plot to assassinate the Prime Minister. Despite the fact they believe the entire thing to be a hoax, police are investigating as they would regularly, and thoroughly. Modi spoke recently about a death threat he received during a rally in Goa.
Police said the call came in around 11:30 pm local time, from a cellphone number issued to one Dinesh Kumar, a resident of Burari. The caller had claimed to have overheard some people talking about killing Modi.
When Kumar was traced and interrogated, he told police that he lent his cellphone’s SIM card to a relative. When this relative was questioned, he said that a stranger had walked up to him outside an eatery and borrowed his phone to make an urgent call. An owner of a business at the location where the call was placed accounted a similar story, according to reports.
India’s Special Cell and Crime Branch are still investigating the matter.
