Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has been escalating controversies over his vows despite having been brought under a warning from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) for his disparaging remarks against allopathy and allopathic medicines. The yoga guru has now vowed that no one can arrest him when addressing a question put before him about the demand and campaign on Twitter to arrest him. 

Recently, amid marketing his Coronil medicine for the Coronavirus pandemic, Ramdev has claimed that lakhs of people have died from taking allopathic medicines for COVID-19 and he also had questioned some of the medicines being used to treat the pandemic. His remarks had sparked outrage from the allopathy doctors across the nation and Ramdev was demanded to take back his statement. 

IMA had protested against the yoga guru for his disparaging remarks. As the protests from the association had grown, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had asked Ramdev to withdraw the statement. Harsh Vardhan has called Ramdev's remarks extremely unfortunate and urged him to take back his statement. 

However, on Monday, though he took back his statement, the yoga guru had posed 25 questions to the IMA in an open letter on his Twitter handle in which he asked if allopathy had offered permanent relief for ailments such as hypertension and diabetes. He further escalated the protests from the medical association by asking whether allopathy had any painless cure to treat infertility as well as to reverse ageing and increase haemoglobin. 

As the sequel of his disparaging statement, the IMA had on Wednesday served a defamation notice on Ramdev demanding an apology from him for making such remarks, else he will be demanded to pay Rs 1,000 crore as compensation. The six-page notice was served on behalf of IMA Uttarakhand Secretary Ajay Khanna by his advocate Neeraj Pandey. In the notice, the IMA has said that the remarks made by Ramdev were in a fashion of damaging the reputation and the image of allopathy and around 2,000 practitioners of it who are part of the association. 

The IMA has underlined that the remarks from Ramdev against allopathy were a criminal act under section 499 of the Indian Penal Code and the association has demanded the yoga guru to issue a written apology from him within 15 days of the receipt of the notice and if he fails to issue an apology, the association will be demanding Ramdev to pay compensation of Rs 1,000 crore at the rate of Rs 50 lakh per member of the IMA.

The top association has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to book Ramdev on sedition charges for spreading fear against the Covid vaccination. Twitter had witnessed the hashtag #ArrestRamdev trending on the platform to strengthen the demand of taking action against the yoga guru. However, amid the call for his arrests, Ramdev had said that no one has the guts to arrest him. 

His comments had come on Wednesday evening, hours after the IMA took a whip against him. While addressing the reporters in Haridwar, Ramdev said that not even someone's father can arrest Swami Ramdev, but they are making a noise. "They are demanding my arrest. Sometimes they call me a thug or maha-thug. It doesn't matter to me. I have become used to such things", Ramdev added.