NEW DELHI, May 27: With another controversy surfacing involving the yoga guru Baba Ramdev virtually throwing a challenge to the medical fraternity in the country, the Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal, himself a medical practitioner, has advised his doctor colleagues to “ignore” the offensive remarks by the Yoga Guru against the allopathic system of medicine.
Amidst the Uttarakhand unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) slapping a Rs 1,000 crore defamation suit and the IMA general secretary Jayant Lele filling a criminal police complaint in Delhi, another video surfaced on Thursday showing Baba Ramdev reacting to the demand for his arrest, saying “even their father cannot arrest him.”
“They are just making a noise. They keep creating trends like Thug Ramdev, Mahathug Ramdev, Giraftar Ramdev and so on,” he said responding to #Arrest Ramdev trends on social media.
“Arrest to khair unka baap bhi nahin kar sakta Swami Ramdev ko (even their father cannot arrest Swami Ramdev),” he is caught saying in the video.
The yoga guru’s latest video shows he is not apologetic at all about making “insensitive” comments about allopathy and allopathic practitioners, a doctor said in Dehradun.
“Ramdev’s statement is full of arrogance. It shows that he considers himself above the law,” he said reacting to the latest video of Ramdev.
The IMA has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that Ramdev be booked immediately under sedition charges for alleged misinformation campaign on Corona vaccination and challenging government protocols for its treatment.
The apex medical body of modern doctors has also served a defamation notice on Ramdev for his alleged disparaging remarks against allopathy and allopathic practitioners, demanding an apology from him within 15 days, failing which it said it will demand a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore from the yoga guru.
In a Facebook post, Dr Jaiswal, the top BJP leader said Ramdev wasn’t a yogi because “a Yogi is one who has control on all his senses and brain.” Dr Jaiswal advised the association of doctors to mostly ignore the guru’s offensive against allopathic medicines.
“Don’t waste your years of education and energy in useless discussion and instead concentrate on our noble profession,” said the doctor-turned-politician, a lawmaker from Paschim Champaran and Bihar BJP president. “Concentrating on our profession would be the most befitting service to our innumerable colleagues who have lost their lives attending to their duties in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic,” he said.
Baba Ramdev has been in the eye of a controversy when he questioned the efficacy of allopathic medicines in treating the dreaded coronavirus.
“Ramdev is a yoga guru. Nobody can question his mastery of yoga. But he is certainly not a Yogi. A Yogi is one who has control over all his senses and brain. What he has done for yoga is comparable to what Coca Cola did for beverages. Indians have been, for ages, consuming Shikanji and thandai but after the advent of the soft drink giant, every home seems to be stocked with bottles of Pepsi and Coke,” Jaiswal said in his post.
There is no need to reply to all baseless talks. If you speak more, you start giving importance to others,” he advised the IMA.
(Manas Dasgupta)