The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday demanded yoga guru Baba Ramdev's prosecution for allegedly trashing modern medicine. However, Patanjali Yogpeeth has denied IMA’s allegations in a statement put out by its General Secretary Acharya Balkrishna.
The IMA had alleged that the yoga guru, co-founder of Patanjali Yogpeeth, is creating a false sense of fear and frustration in the public at large so that he can sell his 'illegal' and 'unapproved' so-called medicines and make money at the cost of the people.
"IMA brings to the notice of our Health Minister, a video circulating in social media portraying the celebrated Yoga guruji addressing 'ALLOPATHY EK AISI STUPID AUR DIWALIYA SCIENCE HAI'. In the past too, he had uttered modern medical doctors as murderers in the presence of the Health Minister himself on the pretext of the release of his wonder drugs," the IMA said in a statement.
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"However, it is a well-known fact that the said yoga guruji and his associate Balkrishna Ji have been taking modern medical allopathy treatment as and when they get into illness. Now to mislead the public at large, he is making all false and baseless acquisitions so that he can sell his illegal and unapproved drugs," IMA said.
"In this address, he has further claimed that Remdesivir, Faviflu and all other approved drugs by the DCGI have failed, and stated that 'LAKHO LOGO KI MAUT ALLOPHATHY KI DAWAI KHANE SE HUI HAI', challenging the wisdom and integrity of DCGI and the head of all these, our Health Minister," the statement said.
However, Acharya Balkrishna denied all these allegations in a statement and claimed that "the truncated version of the video is totally out of context of what is sought to be conveyed by Swami jee."
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"It is necessary to mention that the event was a private event and Swami jee was reading out a forwarded WhatsApp message received by him and various other members who were participating in the event," he said in the statement.
"Also, Swami jee has no ill-will against the modern science and good practitioners of modern medicine. What is being attributed against him is false and nugatory," he added.
The statement further said that Swami Ramdev believes allopathy is a progressive science and that a combination of allopathy, Ayurveda, and yoga will be beneficial to everyone during such difficult times.
