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Still on the list but no longer as wealthy, Patanjali’s chairman Acharya Balkrishina, was the biggest loser on the Hurun Rich List 2021. He saw a 32% dip in his estimated net worth which led to a fall of 489 positions within the rankings.
In the last one year, Patanjali has been caught in a war of words over its Coronil tablet. The company claims that Coronil is an evidence-based medicine to fight COVID-19. However, it has faced a lot of criticism from major stakeholders like the Indian Medical Association (IMA) over the lack of data to prove the medicine’s efficacy.