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EARLY LIFE
- Ramdev was born on 25 December in a Hindu family in 1965 to Ram Niwas Yadav and Gulabo Devi at Hazaribag Ali Saiyad Pur village of Mahendragarh district, Alipur, Haryana Both of his parents were farmers.
- He studied Indian scripture, Yoga and Sanskrit in various Gurukuls schools. He was the student of Acharya Baldevji in Gurukul Kalwa and learnt yoga from Guru Karanvir, an Arya Samaji.
- Ramdev took sanyasi diksha and adopted the name Swami Ramdev from Swami Shankar Dev Ji.
EARLY LIFE
- Then he moved to Haridwar in Uttarakhand, where he practiced self discipline and meditation, and spent several years studying ancient Indian scriptures at Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya.
- Ramdev founded the Divya Yog Mandir Trust in 1995. In 2003, Aastha TV began featuring him in its morning yoga slot
PATANJALI
- Over a twenty year career, he became the face of Patanjali Ayurved, a company that he founded with his colleague (Acharya) Balkrishna. Patanjali went on to become one of the highest grossing FMCG’s in India.
- Patanjali Ayurved is a consumer packaged goods company, based in Haridwar, that was started by Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna in 2006.
- Acharya Balkrishna remains the CEO of Patannjali Ayurved with 95% shareholding and supervising its day to day activities, while Ramdev remains the face of the company and takes most of the business decisions
POLITICS
- In April 2011, Ramdev called on the government to add punitive powers to the Jan Lokpal Bill, a bill to appoint an independent body that would investigate alleged government corruption.
- Ramdev announced he would go on an anshan hunger strike at Ramilla Ground in Delhi, on June 4 2011, to pressure the government into rooting out corruption and repatriating black money. On the morning of June 4, 65,000 of his followers gathered at Ramlila Ground.
- At midnight, a team of 10,000 Delhi policemen and RAF raided the ground when most of the protesters were sleeping
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