India, July 17 -- As many as 300 homeopathic practitioners joined Bahubali Shahi, the administrator of the Maharashtra Council of homoeopathy, in a three-day hunger strike at Azad Maidan at 10am on Wednesday. The Maharashtra United Homoeopathic Doctors Front (MUHDF) was protesting against the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and the state government's decision to withdraw the registration of homoeopathy doctors under the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC). Around 5pm, Shah met with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to address the protestors' concerns, the details of the meeting is not known.

MMC's recent decision to allow homeopathic practitioners to register and practice allopathic medicine once they complete a certificate course in moder...