Yoga guru Baba Ramdev (File) Yoga guru Baba Ramdev (File)

Yoga guru and entrepreneur Ramdev has said that voting rights of people who have given birth to over two children should be taken away, while bachelors like him should be honoured.

“Is desh mein jo hamari tarah se vivah na kare unka vishesh samman hona chahiye, aur vivah kare, to 2 se jyada santaan paida kare to uski voting right nahi honi chahiye (In this country, those, who, like me, do not marry, should be honoured, and those who marry and have more than two children; their voting rights should be taken away)”, he said, while addressing a gathering at Patanjali Yogpeeth.

#WATCH: Yog Guru Ramdev says, “is desh mein jo hamari tarah se vivah na kare unka vishesh samman hona chahiye, aur vivah kare, to 2 se jyada santaan paida kare to uski voting right nahi honi chahiye” pic.twitter.com/hXhsZtM07l — ANI (@ANI) November 4, 2018

The 52-year-old had earlier too credited his bachelorhood for a successful and happy life. “People work for their family. Na biwi na bacche phir bhi dekho kitne acche (There is no wife, no children, and see how comfortable we still are),” he had then said. The Yoga guru conceded that it is not easy to be a family man.

“I don’t go around with the baggage (of having the family). I have created brands..If I had children, they would have staked claim for Patanjali. (I would have told them) this Patanjali is not your father’s property, it belongs to the country,” PTI quoted him as saying.

Ramdev’s Haridwar-based firm Patanjali has established a network of around 56,000 retailers.

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