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NEW DELHI: Among thousands of people twisting,
bending and stretching on a ceremonial road in Delhi on Sunday morning was
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Before surprising everyone by joining a mass
session to mark the first International Yoga Day, he commented: "Who would
have thought that Rajpath would become Yoga Path?"
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PM Narendra Modi performing yoga at Rajpath along with a record gathering of 40,000 people as part of International Yoga Day celebrations·
Here
are 10 developments in the story:
1.
Dressed in all-white
and a tricolour scarf, PM Modi performed a variety of poses, including the
Vajrasan and Padmasan, along with nearly 37,000 people on red mats. (5 Best Pics of
Yoga Day)
2.
"Yoga is an
everyday part of life," said PM Modi,
adding, "Yoga is not just for contorting your body into shapes. If that
were true, people working in the circus would be called yogis."
3.
The 64-year-old prime
minister briefly stopped to inspect students performing yoga around him before
going back to following instructions spoken out in Hindi and English to the
sounds of chanting and Tanpura.
4.
The prime minister had
tweeted early this morning: "Greetings to people around the world on 1st
International Day of Yoga! Lets pledge to make Yoga an integral part of our
daily lives #YogaDay."
5.
The government hopes
that the grand event, also featuring bureaucrats, ministers and soldiers who
had trained for days, will make it to the Guinness Book of World Records for
the "largest yoga
class at a single venue."
6.
Giant digital screens
beamed the event live from Rajpath, where security arrangements rivaled
Republic Day celebrations.
7.
Similar yoga
events took place
simultaneously across India in parks, churches, homes, on
military ships, an army base in the desert and even mid-air on some flights.
8.
Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal, a critic of PM Modi, was also spotted at Rajpath performing
yoga. "Yoga is a good thing. Everyone should do it," he told
reporters.
9.
The UN announced an
International Day of Yoga last year after PM Modi's appeal at the General
Assembly.
10.
Yoga Day is also being
celebrated in the rest of the world; in Britain, mats will be rolled out along
the banks of the River Thames. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj will be at the
UN's headquarters in New York for the Yoga Day celebrations in Times Square.
Story First Published: June 21, 2015 06:48 IST
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