People from 134 nationalities practise yoga with PM
Thursday, 22 June 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The yoga session led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to mark the International Day of Yoga at the UN headquarters has set the Guinness World Record in terms of participation of people from numerous nationalities. While thanking the participants in the session, he said that yoga means union. Notably, the PM is now in New York on the first leg of his first state visit to US. However, the commemorative event marking the International Day of Yoga at the UN headquarters led by the PM himself and attended by the senior UN officials and diplomats is considered to be a historic one.
Modi said that the proposal of announcing a day as the International Day of Yoga had been sent by India nine years ago. But now, the whole world has become a part of the celebration, he said and added that the ancient tradition of yoga being free from copyright and patent, people from as many as 134 nationalities had practised yoga with him.
Extolling yoga as an efficacious means of bringing enduring world peace, he said that it signifies a particular way of life. He stressed again on the motto of one earth, one family and one future.
Earlier, the PM laid a wreath at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and said that yoga can unify humanity, removing contradictions, obstacles and resistances. He averred that they would present India as ‘One India, Great India’ before the world by way of setting an example.
