Yoga Day in Andhra Pradesh ( #InternationalYogaDay )
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu led from the front for Andhra Pradesh to take up Yoga on this International Yoga Day. He kick started the events in Vijayawada. The CM who himself is a Yoga follower performed various Asanas along with thousands of Yoga enthusiasts.
He called upon people to make yoga part of life as it helps people in all round development giving peace and health.
As part of the Central governments idea of Ministers travelling and participating in various states celebrations of Yoga, Union Minister for Coal and Power Piyush Goyal participated in the International Yoga Day event at Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium in
Visakhapatanam, where thousands of people participated.
In an another event in the Port city, over 1,500 NCC Cadets participated in the International Yoga Day celebrations at Andhra University Basketball Ground. Combined Annual Training Camp (CATC-I) of NCC Group HQs headed by Lt. Col. V.S. Srinivas, camp commandant and NCC officer Capt. T. Brahmananda Reddy led the Yoga performance event.
Many schools, colleges, universities including Gitam and Andhra University celebrated the Third International Yoga day with lot of enthusiasm and vigour.
Anna Hazare joins Nanognarians at Bengaluru for Yoga
Anna Hazare, social activist joined the Nanogerians on stage at Kanteerava Outdoor Stadium as part of the third International Yoga Day celebrations.
The activist performed asanas along with world’s oldest Yoga teacher Tao Porchon-Lynch and India’s oldest Yoga guru Amma Nannamal who demonstrated various asanas at Kanteerava Outdoor Stadium.
On the occasion as many as 5000 Yoga enthusiasts participated in the event. Speaking on the occasion Anna Hazare lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his initiative in promoting Yoga.
In another event at Mysuru, an attempt to set a new world record for longest Yoga chain was performed. More than 8,387 schoolchildren from 44 schools participated in the event forming the longest yoga chain in front of the iconic Mysuru Palace.
TN Governor leads Yoga Day Events
Tamil Nadu Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao and several union ministers today led the state in celebrating the third International Yoga Day by joining Yogic events organised on the occasion.
The Governor presided over a event held at the Isha Yoga Centre in Coimbatore along with Union Minister of State for Tourism and Culture Mahesh Sharma.
Hundreds of people participated in the event conducted by Isha founder Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev in front of the 112-ft tall Adiyogi statue, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February last.
“Adiyogi is one of the most iconic & inspiring places in the world for people to take up Yoga. #InternationalYogaDay”, Sharma, who was the Guest of Honour at the event, tweeted.
Similar Yoga programmes were held across the state with thousands of people, including students, taking part.
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju joined the celebrations held at a school in Chennai while Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, Pon Radhakrishnan, Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar participated in events conducted in Madurai and Puducherry respectively.
Lieutenant General R K Anand, General Officer Commanding, Dakshin Bharat Area, participated in the Yoga Day celebrations organised in Chennai. Nearly 500 service personnel participated in the event conducted at the Palm Grove Environmental Centre.
Rear Admiral Alok Bhatnagar, Flag Officer Commanding Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Naval area, officers and Navy personnel along with their families participated in the event conducted at the INS Adyar here.
MJ Akbar leads Puducherry Yoga celebrations #InternationalYogaDay
Union Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar was in Puducherry to participate in different events to mark the Third International Yoga Day. Akbar inaugurated the Yoga day celebrations in Puducherry and also a Continuous Medical Education programme on Yoga at the premier health institute JIPMER.
Speaking on the occasion, he said it was Prime Minister NarendraModi’s “vision on Yoga that had converted what used to exist as part of our inheritance and heritage into a world phenomenon.”
Yoga was part of the country’s great contributions to the world’s thinking and processes of enhancement. “It is unfortunate that our contributions have been forgotten. Small minded people argued against it although yoga preaches message of harmony, shanthi and peace,” the Union Minister said recalling opposition from some quarters to the initiative taken up by Modi three years ago.
He said what the Prime Minister had achieved through the UN and across 170 nations was a connectivity of thinking and thought processes.
Earlier, Akbar addressed the Yoga day celebrations at the Gandhi Thidal organised by the Puducherry government, attended among others by Chief Minister V Narayanasamy.
Kerala CM applauds Yoga #InternationalYogaDay
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan launched the Yoga Day celebration in Thiruvananthapuram and mentioned that there were efforts underway to “hijack” Yoga and colour it with religious connotations. He called upon people to ignore the different propaganda on Yoga and should start adopting it “as a form of exercise that helps in keeping several diseases at bay. It does not belong to any religion.”
The CM made the statement while speaking at an event organised by the state government in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday, to observe International Yoga Day.
“Yoga is the most effective form of exercise to maintain one’s health. See it only as an exercise. There is no need to see Yoga as a religious practice. One should be secular in nature while practicing Yoga,” Pinarayi Vijayan said at the event organised at Thiruvananthapuram Central Stadium.
He added that efforts to portray Yoga as part of a religion should be resisted.
“There are deliberate efforts being made to create misunderstandings about Yoga. Some people are trying to link religious sookthas (hymns) with Yoga and are trying to create misunderstandings among people,” he said.
Interestingly, Pinarayi Vijayan had conveyed a similar message during the Yoga Day observance last year too. #InternationalYogaDay
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