Ramdev’s infertility medicine ad not misleading: Paswan

Kolkata: Even as the controversy over Baba Ramdev's infertility medicine rages on, union Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Protection Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Friday that its advertisement cannot be classified as "misleading" and assured that the matter was being probed.

"When people don't get the promised results as claimed by a product, then only it can be termed as misleading... This product cannot be classified under misleading advertisement," he told media persons here.

"The issue which is raging on in parliament is about when the government is promoting 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign, why is this medicine promoting only male child," he said.

According to Paswan, while allopathic medicines can be tested in laboratories and thereafter animal-testing can be done to analyse its "effects and after-effects", homeopathic and ayurvedic medicines cannot be done so. "Promoting only a male child is illegal... The Union Home and Heath ministers are already looking into it," he said.

Meanwhile, Ramdev on Friday rebutted allegations that it was being sold for conceiving a male child and claimed that he was being targeted through "lies" to defame the Prime Minister.

However, he said a disclaimer will be added on the package of the medicine 'Putrajeevak Beej' that it does not promise a male child and claimed it is named so after the scientific name of the herb 'Putranjiva roxburghii Wall'.