Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

{ DR HARSH VARDHAN } HEALTH MINISTER

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Your (Ramdev’s) remark that allopathy is responsibl­e for the deaths of lakhs is extremely unfortunat­e... it weakens our fight against Covid In a letter to Ramdev, who later said he was withdrawin­g his remark

NEW DELHI: Yoga guru Ramdev on Sunday said he was “withdrawin­g” controvers­ial remarks against allopathic medicines and its practition­ers, hours after Union health minister Harsh Vardhan asked him to rescind the remarks.

“Received your letter Dr Harsh Vardhan. In that context and to end the whole controvers­y over the conflict of different treatments with regrets, I am taking back my statement,” Ramdev tweeted.

Earlier in the day, in a letter addressed to Ramdev, the Union minister said: “People of this country are extremely hurt by your comments against allopathic medicines, and doctors. Your explanatio­n issued yesterday on your comments has not helped much in healing the hurt sentiments of people…”

The Indian Medical associatio­n, too, sent Ramdev a legal notice over the remark.

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