NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has directed the Union Ayush ministry to take action against Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved for alleged misleading advertisements about its products. Following the PMO directive on January 24, the yush ministry wrote to the Uttarakhand Ayush department on February 2 to “take appropriate action”. The PMO’s move came after RTI activist Dr K V Babu complained to it on January 15 flagging Patanjali’s repeated violations of the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954. Speaking to this newspaper, Dr Babu said both the Ayush ministry and the Uttarakhand State Licensing Authority (SLA) had been dragging their feet over Patanjali’s misleading advertisements of its drugs for diabetes, obesity, thyroid and heart diseases.
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