IMA writes to PM Modi, seeks action against Baba Ramdev
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding action against Baba Ramdev for his remarks on allopathy.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding action against Baba Ramdev for his alleged misinformation campaign on vaccination and challenging government protocols for treatment of COVID-19
"Misinformation campaign on vaccination by Patanjali owner Ramdev should be stopped. In a video he claimed that 10,000 doctors & lakhs of people have died despite taking both doses of vaccine. Action under sedition charges should be taken against him,” the letter said.
Earlier, the IMA served a defamation notice demanding an apology from him within 15 days, failing which it said it will demand compensation of Rs 1,000 crore from the yoga guru. The six-page notice served on behalf of IMA (Uttarakhand) secretary Ajay Khanna by his lawyer Neeraj Pandey describes the remarks by Ramdev as damaging to the reputation and the image of allopathy and around 2,000 practitioners of it who are part of the association.
Terming the remarks of the yoga guru a "criminal act" under section 499 of the Indian Penal Code, the notice demanded a written apology from him within 15 days of its receipt, saying a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore will be demanded from him at the rate of Rs 50 lakh per member of the IMA if he failed to do so. The notice has also asked Ramdev to make a video clip contradicting all his allegations and circulate it on the social media platforms where he had uploaded his earlier video levelling them.
It further asked the yoga guru to withdraw a "misleading" advertisement from all platforms endorsing "Coronil kit", a product of his firm, as an effective medicine for COVID-19, failing which an FIR and a criminal case will be lodged against him by the IMA. On Sunday, Ramdev was forced to withdraw a statement made in a viral video clip in which he is heard questioning some of the medicines being used to treat the coronavirus infection and saying that "lakhs have died from taking allopathic medicines for COVID-19".
(With inputs from PTI)
(Edited by : Aditi Gautam)
First Published: May 26, 2021 5:19 PM IST
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