Ravi Shankar meets Ramdev,appeals to end fast

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and former President A P J Abdula Kalam also appealed to Ramdev to end his fast.

“No. Nobody in the central government has said anything to me and I have come here on my own. I will keep meeting him till he breaks it,” Ravi Shankar said when asked if someone from the government got in touch with him on the issue.

“If government wants,I am ready to do anything… whatever the nation needs,” he told reporters after meeting Ramdev at the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences for about an hour here.

Ramdev,who was admitted to the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences last evening after his condition deteriorated on the seventh day of his fast was administered saline and glucose.

“Ramdev’s blood pressure and pulse rate went down last night. But,they have been brought under control. He is stable,” Dr Deepak Goel,part of the medical team that is monitoring Ramdev’s health,told reporters.

He said Ramdev “was weak and has some problems in sitting and speaking.”

A medical bulletin issued by the hospital said the pulse rate and blood pressure were stabilising slowly and there was an improvement in the health condition of Ramdev.

A medical bulletin of Ramdev,issued earlier by the hospital,said his pulse rate and blood pressure were stabilising slowly and there was an improvement in his health.

Dr S L Jethani,Medical Superintendent of the hospital said Ramdev’s liver and kidneys were functioning normally.

Ramdev was being administered being administered intervenous fluid – glucose and normal saline – following which his condition improved,doctors had said.

The 46-year-old yoga exponent was admitted to the ICU immediately after he was brought to the hospital yesterday.

Ramdev is on an indefinite hunger strike against black money and corruption at Patanjali Yogpeeth here.

Meanwhile,Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank visited Ramdev at the hospital in Dehra Dun.

“His condition is not normal. Ramdev’s blood pressure and pulse rate are continuously fluctuating. If it continues,there may be a stage where he may go into comma.

“His health is being monitored. Our team is here and they are continuously taking care of his health. We are doing whatever we can do to save his life,” he told reporters.