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Plea to make voting mandatory

HUBLI: Yoga guru Baba Ramadev has urged the Government to make voting mandatory to ensure proper functioning of democracy.

He was addressing presspersons on Friday after visiting “Patanjali Chikitsalaya” here. Most of the educated voters refrained from voting because of which wrong candidates get elected. If voting was made mandatory, such candidates would be defeated and those who worked honestly for the betterment of society would be elected.

Apart from promoting yoga and Ayurveda, Patanjali Yoga Kendra would initiate four programmes, he said. Movements aimed at creating a healthy and clean India, providing moral education and developing patriotism would be initiated in the coming days, he said. A movement to prevent the release of effluents into the Ganga would begin shortly, he said.

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