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Carrots and sticks

The sudden crackdown on Baba Ramdev's campaign against black money and corruption has been a giant government misstep. If it indeed believed, as senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh stated, that the Baba was an inconsequential 'thug', why did the government dispatch four ministers to meet him at Delhi airport? If uneasy about the Baba's saffron links, why did it entertain him for hours at a Delhi hotel? 

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