Although the state government is suspending the distribution of the herbal preparation of Ayurveda practitioner B. Anandaiah from Krishnapatnam, which allegedly claims to offer a cure for COVID-19, people from different parts of the state and neighboring states are crowding into the village and hoping against it Hope that the government will make an early decision based on the submissions from the AYUSH department.
Meanwhile, the state’s Minister of Industry Mekapati Goutham Reddy said the government would make a decision once there was full clarity on the herbal preparation that was being investigated by Union organizations and state government.
When he learned that Mr. Anandaiah had returned to his village late Friday, people from far and wide crowded into his home, where Nellore Rural police were stepping up security. Residents surrounded him and expressed concern that he had been kept away from the village for more than a week.
Since he suspected that the situation could get out of hand, a special police group took him to an unknown destination again on Saturday under strict security precautions.
Check post
A checkpoint was set up at the entrance to the village to prevent outsiders from entering the village on a large scale. Barricades have been erected at various points along the Chennai-Kolkata highway to regulate the crowd, police said.
Telugu Desam Party’s national secretary Beeda Ravichandra urged the state government to end uncertainty by taking an early decision on herbal preparation.
While poor people visiting the village returned empty-handed, the ruling YSR Congress Pparty secretly pledged the herbal preparation to influential people by detaining Mr. Anandaiah on the pretext of providing security, he claimed.