The Community of Practising Medical Doctors play an important link between the people and the pharmaceutical industry as the latter depend on the prescribing Medical Doctors for the sale of their products. We in DAF-K sincerely feel that you have an important role to play in bringing pressure on the industry by boycotting the drugs produced by Novartis company till they stop their actions that prevent patients from getting medicines. This includes dropping all their legal actions relating to imatinib mesylate including the upcoming appeal to the patent controllers order and stopping their actions in trying to influence the Indian government to introduce laws and policies that create monopolies on drugs and that place profits before patients. DAF-K feels strongly that you should take up Boycott Novartis Products Campaign as the Company has not responded positively to earlier appeals from various people all over the world to withdraw its wholly unjustified and anti-people stand about the imatinib mesylate patent. In fact DAF-K is compelled to call for this boycott as last resort and seek your support because Novartis has failed to respond to all other approaches by leading global organisations and state heads. We are sure you are interested in the welfare of the human society and will certainly join this Campaign to make the drug available and affordable to poor patients. This will not only help with respect to Gleevec but will send shock signals to other pharmaceutical companies who would indulge in similar acts.