Controversial Yoga guru to address UN meet
Controversial Yoga guru Baba Ramdev who was allege to charge huge money for his yoga tour in UK is now set to to deliver a lecture on poverty alleviation.
Ramdev, who runs Patanjali Yogpeeth at Haridwar, has been invited by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to visit the world body's headquarters at New York and deliver a lecture on October 15,according to sources close to the guru .
The conference forms part of an UN initiative in 2000 that pledged to eradicate poverty by 2015. Ramdev had earlier this year travelled to Britain where he received appreciation for his work on ayurveda and yoga and criticism fr charging huge money.
Ramdev, who runs Patanjali Yogpeeth at Haridwar, has been invited by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to visit the world body's headquarters at New York and deliver a lecture on October 15,according to sources close to the guru .
The conference forms part of an UN initiative in 2000 that pledged to eradicate poverty by 2015. Ramdev had earlier this year travelled to Britain where he received appreciation for his work on ayurveda and yoga and criticism fr charging huge money.
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