Dehradun: After yoga guru Ramdev made defamatory statements towards allopathy and “defaming” scientific medication, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Uttarakhand on Friday challenged him for an open debate on a public platform within the presence of media.
IMA Uttarakhand President Dr Ajay Khanna in a letter to yoga guru Ramdev known as his assertion rash, irresponsible and egocentric.
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“This is to inform you that IMA UA State through its state office request you to constitute a team of qualified and duly registered Ayurvedacharyas from Patanjali Yogpeeth to have a one-to-one discussion with a team of doctors of IMA UA State which has already been constituted by the state office. This one-to-one panel discussion shall be closely supervised and recorded by the electronic and print media which shall also be invited in this panel discussion,” IMA letter reads.
The letter additional acknowledged that Ramdev and his aide Balkrishna may also be part of the group of Ayurvedacharyas however solely as spectators as a result of they haven’t despatched the qualification to the state workplace of the IMA.
“The responsibility is on you to decide the date and time of the above proposed healthy discussion, however, the venue shall be decided by us,” it mentioned. “The above proposal is for your kind consideration and implementation at the earliest to ensure that the deadlock and the confusion created by you shall meet its end. From this day onwards the onus lies on you regarding the above issue,” the letter mentioned.
The letter additional mentioned that this exercise shall make sure the concord between Allopath and Ayurved to be restored once more because it was prior to now however was disturbed for these couple of days by your rash, irresponsible and egocentric assertion.
In one other letter, IMA additionally demanded particulars of hospitals the place he has claimed that Patanjali medicines have been used.
Earlier on Wednesday, IMA appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take acceptable motion beneath sedition and different prices towards Ramdev for allegedly “spearheading a misinformation campaign on COVID vaccination”.
“At this juncture, we are pained to bring to your kind notice, two videos where Ramdev, owner of Patanjali Ayurved, is seen inter alia to be claiming that 10,000 doctors have died in spite of taking both the dose of vaccine and that lakhs of people have died due to allopathic medicine. He has also claimed that ‘Allopathy Ek stupid Aur Diwaliya Science Hai’ and that thousands of people have died from taking allopathic medicines for the treatment of COVID-19 related symptoms. These videos are circulating virally on social media,” IMA claimed in a letter to PM Modi.
The IMA on final Saturday despatched a authorized discover to Ramdev over his alleged statements towards allopathy and “defaming” scientific medication. However, the Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust has denied allegations by the IMA that Ramdev has misled folks by making “unlearned” statements towards allopathy and defamed scientific medication.
On Sunday, Ramdev withdrew his statements on allopathic medication after receiving a strong-worded letter from Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan who known as his remarks “inappropriate”. According to a Haridwar-based Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust assertion, Ramdev was studying out a WhatsApp forwarded message within the video that has gone viral on social media.
