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Dehradun: Swami Gopal Das, a seer who like Ganga crusader Swami Sanand had been fasting since June 24 for a clean and free-flowing Ganga was on Tuesday discharged from AIIMS Rishikesh.However, after getting discharged, the seer wrote a letter to the PM with his blood in which he appealed Modi to save Ganga else he would stop drinking water as well. The seer wrote, “The cleanliness of Ganga is a question of life and death for Indians but in the blind race of development which is being headed by you (PM), Ganga has become a source of income. After which, they sat on a protest inside the jail.Media coordinator of Rashtriya Ganga Satyagraha, Rambabu Tiwari, said, “If they are not freed at the earliest, we will also start protesting. Like previous governments, you have also approved Ganga-related works, thus killing the river and hurting the sentiments of the people. Let police arrest all of us.”.