Embroiled in a controversy over the removal of P Venugopal, AIIMS Director, Ramadoss said "especially, journalists in Delhi are concentrating on issues relating to the All India Institute of Medical Sceinces as I am from MBC." He was speaking at the release of six books on Siddha medicine.

Ramadoss, who belongs to the Vanniya community listed as MBC, declined to elaborate on his comments on the media when he was approached by reporters.

"Whatever I said in the speech.... I do not want to comment more about it," he said.

Venugopal had moved the Supreme Court after he was removed from the post as a new bill was brought in by Ramadoss fixing 65 years age limit for retirement of AIIMS directors.

Ramadoss also attacked the opponents of his proposal to make one year rural service compulsory for MBBS degree, saying they are "enemies of villagers, those who oppose the scheme." "The same persons who question me in Parliament on the shortage of doctors in villages, oppose the scheme in Tamil Nadu," he said in an apparent reference to the Left, DMK and other parties in Tamil Nadu who backed the medicos strike against the proposal.