Top 10: PM Modi Performs Yoga With Thousands at Delhi's Rajpath
Updated: June 21, 2015 08:34 IST
India along with the rest of the world is celebrating International Yoga Day, an initiative championed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who pitched the idea of an International Yoga Day at the United Nations General Assembly last year.
Thousands of people twisting, bending and stretching on Rajpath in Delhi at the crack of dawn with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "Who would have thought that Rajpath would become Yoga Path," says PM Narendra Modi.
NaMo's yoga pose of the day: Kapalbhati pranayam.
45,000 people including bureaucrats, students and soldiers performed Yoga along with PM Narendra Modi at New Delhi's India Gate.
A sea of yoga mats covered Rajpath: More than 45,000 people participated to perform yoga in the presence of PM Modi.
PM Narendra Modi: "Yoga is not just for exercising limbs. If that was true, people working in the circus would be called yogis."
PM Modi made Yoga Day a key initiative of his government since he took office 13 months ago. "Yoga has the power to bring the entire humankind together!" PM Modi tweeted last year after pitching the idea of an International Yoga Day, during his speech to the UN General Assembly last year.
PM Narendra Modi: "I bow down to the sages who have encouraged Yoga through centuries."
PM Narendra Modi surrounded as Yoga Day celebrations end at Rajpath.
PM Narendra Modi at the launch of the International Yoga Day Celebrations: "Rajpath has become 'Yog-path.' We are not only celebrating a day but we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace."
The yoga asanas are according to the Common Yoga Protocol, put together by the AYUSH Ministry, which has organised the celebration along with the external affairs ministry. Around thirty-five asanas were performed.
