Nation celebrates the 5th International Yoga Day 2019, PM Modi in Ranchi

Ranchi: The world observes 5^th International Yoga Day on Friday with huge gatherings and mass practice of yoga in public places. In India, the birthplace of yoga, the celebration gets massive with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi being one of the prime followers of it. PM Modi joined a huge mass yoga event in Jharkhand capital city Ranchi.

Participating in the event, Narendra Modi said he "wanted to make yoga an integral part of the lives of the poor." The mass yoga event in Ranchi witnessed the participation of around 30,000 people who attuned to performing asanas together.

Pointing at the merits one can drive from the regular practice of yoga, Modi further added, "Diseases make a poor person poorer; I want to take yoga from cities to the villages, to the jungles, to the poor and the adivasis (tribals). Yoga belongs to everyone and everyone belongs to Yoga."

Other union ministers like Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and others made visits to different parts of the country to participate at the mega yoga events across the country. This year, India celebrates the International Yoga Day with the theme "climate action".

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh attended the morning yoga session at Rajpath in Delhi. New Delhi lawmaker Meenakshi Lekhi along with a huge mass joined the union minister at the event. On the other hand, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman accompanied by East Delhi lawmaker Gautam Gambhir attended the Yamuna Sports Complex yoga session in Shahdara.

Union Minister Smriti Irani participated at a yoga event in Bijwasan in Delhi. Om Birla, the newly-elected Lok Sabha Speaker was seen participating in the yoga event arranged at the premises of the Parliament House complex.

In Delhi only, around 300 yoga sessions could be seen hosted by the BJP that witnessed a massive participation of about 10 lakh people.

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