India: outcry after the Islamophobic remarks of the billionaire guru Baba Ramdev

Billionaire guru Baba Ramdev on June 21, 2017 in Ahmedabad on World Yoga Day.

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,” said the CEO of the Patanjali company, valued at more than 6 billion euros.

A scandal that happens when Patanjali is precisely in difficulty on the markets.

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With our correspondent in Bangalore,

Both a billionaire and a star of alternative medicine, Baba Ramdev is a guru as adored as it is controversial.

With his releases on yoga supposed to cure homosexuality, women's outfits or his false remedies against the Covid, he frequently hits the headlines in India. 

But a step was taken this Friday, during a gathering of Hindu seers in Rajasthan.

could commit crimes as long as they said their prayers.

Christians were not spared, accused of "

". 

Words of extreme violence from a very listened to guru, in an India where religious tensions are getting worse.

AIMIM, the Muslim Political Rally, called on the Chief Minister of Rajasthan for sanctions against Baba Ramdev.

Several complaints have been filed across the country and Congress party MPs have questioned the central government's inaction

Very close to the BJP party, the guru is unlikely to be worried.

however, it is a second scandal that has hit a billionaire close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Patanjali's food branch has also lost 50% of its valuation on the markets in recent months.

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