NGO to sue Ramdev over AIDS claim

December 27, 2006

NO CURE FOR TROUBLE: An NGO has threatened to sue Ramdev if he

doesn't take back his AIDS cure claim.

New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev is in the line of fire again. After

being served a notice by the Health Ministry for a statement in which

he " claimed that he could cure AIDS " , an NGO has threatened to sue

him.

The NGO, People's Health Organisation (PHO) has said that they will

take legal action against Ramdev if he does not backtrack on his

statement.

Baba Ramdev had on Monday refused to reply to the Health Ministry's

notice, saying that his statement on AIDS was wrongly represented by

the media.

He asserted that he never claimed that AIDS can be cured through Yoga

and added that he had only said cancer could be cured and in the case

of AIDS, Yoga could result in marked improvement.

" Though Ramdev has been successful in popularising the importance of

yoga, he has developed a habit of exceeding his brief by declaring a

cure on HIV. The PHO has appealed to the government to stop

this 'unstoppable' baba, " a release from the People's Health

Organisation read.

" It would be far-fetched and misguiding to claim that a cure for AIDS

would be found through yoga in the next couple of years. Such

statements mislead the masses and undo the undeterred efforts put in

by social activists, volunteers and organisations to check the spread

of the epidemic, " the release added.

PHO has appealed to the authorities to look into the matter and said

it would sue him if action was not taken.

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