Ramdev’s Patanjali slams ‘mafia’ after ‘ban’ of 5 drugs was reported in Uttarakhand

Patan­jali said it had not received a copy of the order.

Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny Divya Phar­ma­cy, owned by yoga guru Baba Ramde­v’s Patan­jali group, on Thurs­day accused an “anti-Ayurve­da drug mafia” of con­spir­a­cy after the Uttarak­hand gov­ern­ment report­ed­ly banned the pro­duc­tion of five of their drugs cit­ing mis­lead­ing advertising.

The com­pa­ny said it had not received a copy of the order, which is cit­ed in the top news­pa­per reports, but “the involve­ment of the anti-Ayurvedic drug mafia is clear”.

“All prod­ucts and med­i­cines man­u­fac­tured by Patan­jali are man­u­fac­tured to pre­scribed stan­dards and com­ply with all legal process­es and inter­na­tion­al stan­dards with the high­est research and qual­i­ty in the Ayurve­da tra­di­tion with the help of more than 500 sci­en­tists,” the com­pa­ny said in a statement.

“The let­ter, which was con­spir­a­tive­ly writ­ten and cir­cu­lat­ed in the media on 11/09/2022 in a spon­sored man­ner by Ayurve­da and Unani Ser­vices Uttarak­hand, has not been made avail­able to Patan­jali Sansthan in any form,” she added.

“Either the depart­ment should cor­rect its mis­take and take appro­pri­ate action against the per­son involved in this con­spir­a­cy, oth­er­wise the orga­ni­za­tion will take legal action to pun­ish the indi­vid­u­als respon­si­ble for this con­spir­a­cy along with com­pen­sa­tion for the insti­tu­tion­al loss that Patan­jali,” the com­pa­ny said.

Accord­ing to reports in sev­er­al news­pa­pers on Thurs­day, Uttarak­hand Ramde­v’s Patan­jali Ayurved author­i­ties had asked to stop man­u­fac­tur­ing five prod­ucts the com­pa­ny adver­tised to treat blood pres­sure, dia­betes, goi­ter, glau­co­ma and high cholesterol.

The Ayurve­da and Unani Licens­ing Author­i­ty in Dehradun, Uttarak­hand, ordered man­u­fac­tur­er Divya Phar­ma­cy to cease pro­duc­tion of Mad­hugrit, Eye­grit, Thy­rogrit, BPgrit and Lipidom adver­tised as part of Patan­jal­i’s Ayurve­da health prod­uct range, The Tele­graph reported.

The order was giv­en by Dr. GCS grant­ed. Jang­pan­gi, Licens­ing Offi­cer of Uttarak­hand Ayurvedic and Unani Ser­vices, and accused Patan­jali of mis­lead­ing adver­tis­ing, The Hin­du reported.

Accord­ing to the Hin­dus­tan Times, the mea­sure was tak­en in response to a com­plaint filed by Ker­ala-based oph­thal­mol­o­gist KV Babu ear­li­er this July. KV Babu emailed anoth­er com­plaint to the State Licens­ing Author­i­ty (SLA) on Oct. 11, the news­pa­per said.