Here is a list of important things that you must know about yoga guru Baba Ram Dev who commenced his indefinite fast in Delhi today against corruption.

1. 46-year old yoga guru Ram Dev works for a minimum of 18 hours and a maximum of 20 hours a day.

2. He wakes up at 3 am daily to do his exercises. His diet would consist of only milk, green vegetables and seasonal fruits.

3. Ram Dev says 30 million people watch his yoga programmes daily on TV channels. He teaches yoga techniques and methods with practical exercises that would provide cure to several diseases including high BP and diabetes.

4. Ram Dev’s Haridwar asram in Uttarakhand can hold 6,000 people for yoga practice at a stretch.

5.  He teaches yoga to millions of people around the world with the aid of his three trusts that do yoga business worth $ 40 million every year.

6. Baba Ram Dev is a high flying yoga guru. He always moves in chartered flights.

7. He owns, among several properties around the world, a Scottish island known as ‘Peace Island’, a university dedicated to yoga teaching and a pharmaceutical company which produces ayurvedic and herbal medicines.

8. Ramdev has announced plans to form a national political party and challenge the congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

9. Ramdev is dead opposed to unnatural sexual practices. He announced long ago that homosexuality is a mental disease and only mentally instable people become homosexuals.

10. Baba Ram Dev openly opposed the 2009 Delhi High Court judgment that decriminalized homosexuality. He said the judgment encourages criminality among youth. “The judgment is shameful and insulting,” he declared in 2009 soon after the judgment.

 11. He opposed sex education in schools and demanded the government to replace it with yoga education.

12. He says yoga has cure for all diseases that cannot be cured by modern doctors.

13. Ramdev’s trust conducts yoga courses in several countries including the UK, US, Canada,         Mauritius and Nepal. He claimed he has hundreds of thousands of followers across the world.

14. Ram Dev’s Trusts sell yoga books and CDs worth $ 500,000 every month. He lectures proficiently at his yoga camps with lot of humor.  In July, he will travel to Russia for conducting workshops and lectures on Yoga.

15. Ram Dev is a 100 per cent pure vegetarian and had never touched even an egg. He says he never drank alcohol.