Click to play videoNew Delhi: He has been drawing crowds with his Yoga magic, professing cures with this ancient science where even modern medicine fails, but the Government has finally drawn the line.
Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss is proposing amendments to the Drugs and Magical Remedies Act - which makes it illegal to advertise claims for unvalidated cures, either allopathic or alternative.
A notice has been served on Baba Ramdev for misleading the public with magical cures.
It's time to put an end to such claims, says Ramadoss.
"Earlier there were only medicines in the Magic Remedies Act, but now we are putting treatment as part of it so that no one can claim miracles. With this claims of people who say they can treat diseases like HIV AIDS will be deterred," says he.
And it's not just the yoga guru who has been at the receiving end, but at least 80 other organisations that have been told to desist from making such 'false' claims.
However, the Baba himself remains unfazed.
"People are getting cured and these claims are not being made by me but by people themselves," says Baba Ramdev.
And joining the battle against the Health Minister, on the Yoga guru's side is long time ally and Chairman of Parliament's Standing Committee on Health, Amar Singh.
"Nowadays, it's perceptions that matter. It's the belief of the people," says Amar Singh.
First it was human bones in Ramdev's medicines and now the latest salvo. While Yoga might have captured the imagination of the masses, where the Government is concerned, there are no magical remedies in health.
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