Most of the Union Ministers performed yoga asanas in different cities across the country on the occasion of International Yoga Day.
While Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting M Venkaiah Naidu led the yoga day celebrations in the national Capital, Union labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya participated in Hyderabad.
“Thanks to PM Modi, yoga is now an international art; it’s neither political nor religious. It brings peace, good health & unity” Naidu tweeted.
A large number of Union Ministers stayed put in Uttar Pradesh as the State capital lucknow attracted eyeballs where Prime Minister himself performed ‘yoga asanas’. Minister of State for Ayush Sripad Naik participated in the yoga festivities at the State capital.
Elsewhere, in UP, Uma Bharti was at Jhansi, Manoj Sinha at Varanasi, VK Singh at Ghaziabad and Santosh Gangwar at Bareilly. Besides Central Ministers Sanjiv Baliyan was at Muzzafarnagar, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti at Fatehpur, Mahendra Nath at Gorakhpur, Krishna Raj at Agra and Anupriya Patel at Mirzapur.
Other Union Ministers like Prakash Javadekar stayed at Imphal, Manipur to mark the yoga day while Suresh Prabhu was at Mumbai. Another Central Minister Smiriti Irani performed yoga at Hamirpur saying “lets make Yoga an integral part of our routine.”
Central Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore was at Alwar, Rajasthan, on the yoga day and Hans Raj Ahir performed Yoga at Silvasa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh was at Jammu while MoS MEA MJ Akbar attended yoga celebration at Puducherry. IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad did his part of yoga at Patna.