As #ArrestRamdev Trends, He Fires Fresh Shots At IMA, Says 'Nobody Can Arrest Him' In New Video
There is no end to the war of words between Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and the Indian Medical Association (IMA).
A day after the Uttarakhand chapter of the IMA sent a Rs 1,000 crores defamation notice to the yoga guru for his?recent statements on allopathy doctors and medicine?Ramdev has once again hit back at IMA.
"Anyway, even their father can¡¯t arrest Swami Ramdev"
In a new video that surfaced online, he can be heard saying: ¡°Khair, arrest toh unka baap bhi nahi kar sakta Swami Ramdev ko (Anyway, even their father can¡¯t arrest Swami Ramdev)¡±. He adds, ¡°They keep creating such trends, like ¡®Thug Ramdev¡¯, Mahathug Ramdev¡¯, ¡®Giraftar Ramdev¡¯ and so on. Let them do it. Our people have become accustomed to running such trends and our trends always reach the top.¡±
Though it is not clear when Ramdev had said this it follows on the heels of the defamation notice by IMA and a growing call on social media with #ArrestRamdev hashtag.
On Wednesday, IMA Uttarakhand unit President Dr Ajay Khanna had said Ramdev does not have sound knowledge and is engaging in rhetorics.
"I am ready for face-to-face with Baba Ramdev. Ramdev does not have a lot of knowledge about allopathy, despite that he is against allopathy and the doctors associated with it. He is making rhetorical statements," said Dr Khanna.
The IMA on Wednesday also appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take appropriate action under sedition and other charges against Ramdev for allegedly "spearheading a misinformation campaign on COVID vaccination".
"The Indian Medical Association is proactively spearheading your commitment to enforcing vaccination to all above 18 years as the tool to overcome the corona pandemic. When you initiated the vaccine rollout, IMA leaders across the country stood first to get the vaccine and by this dispelled the vaccine hesitancy. With the sincere efforts of the Government and the modern medical healthcare professional India could vaccinate nearly 20 crore people, one of the fastest vaccination drives in the world. We laud your motive to augment the indoor production of more vaccines and approval of vaccines from other countries to be used in our country," wrote IMA in its letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"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.
The IMA has been at war with Ramdev and his Patanjali Ayurveda, which claimed to have developed an ayurvedic cure for COVID-19.
However modern medicine doctors have repeatedly called out Patanjali and Coronil which they say is not backed by any scientific data.
Despite this Coronil has found endorsements from Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and recently from the Haryana Government.
But the recent war of words between IMA and Ramdev was triggered after a video of him saying that "lakhs have died from taking allopathic medicines for Covid-19".
The IMA which strongly objected to Ramdev's comments in a strongly-worded statement asked?Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to either accept what the yoga guru said?and dissolve modern medical facilities or book and prosecute Yoga Guru under the Epidemic Diseases Act.
Though Ramdev said he was withdrawing his comment, he came back with a set of 25 questions for the IMA about modern medicine.
In the meantime, two undated videos have also surfaced in which Ramdev falsely claimed that more than 10,000 doctors have died after taking both shots of COVID-19 vaccines.
