8226; While holding no brief for Swami Ramdev, I feel that Brinda Karat’s allegations that the Ayurvedic medicines produced by Ramdev’s pharmacy had ‘human and animal’ traces, is driven not by her concern for vegetarians but by some other agenda. It is well known that Ramdev has been promoting good health through pranayama and yoga, and has been forcefully highlighting the ill effects of colas and the exploitation of drug multinationals. Why did Karat not protest when the oil mafia involved in the mass adulteration of petrol killed an honest officer like
S. Manjunath? Why is she silent on the issue of over-priced drugs? These issues are of more concern to people than the quality of Ramdev’s medicines.