Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar today said that the Centre has not asked him to negotiate with Ramdev for ending his fast but he will still persist with the yoga guru to call off his hunger strike.
"No. Nobody in the central government has said anything to me and I have come here on my own. I will keep meeting him till he breaks it," Ravi Shankar said when asked if someone from the government got in touch with him on the issue.
"If government wants, I am ready to do anything... whatever the nation needs," he said.
Ravi Shankar said Ramdev was "too weak to speak anything" when he was asked if the yoga guru had put forth some demands.
"I have come to know that his blood pressure and pulse rate is fluctuating. I have requested him to break his fast. I am older to him and I have advised him that for nation's sake he should give up his fast.
"Though he is determined, I am adamant to. I will get his fast broken," Ravi Shankar told reporters after meeting Ramdev at the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences for about an hour here.
Earlier, a Patanjali Yogpeeth spokesperson said that former President A P J Abdul Kalam called up Ramdev and asked him to break his fast.
Ramdev was admitted to the hospital here as his health began deteriorating after he began his fast in his ashram in neighbouring Haridwar.