Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday announced to organise International Yoga day in a big way at Haryana’s Faridabad on June 21.
Ramdev, who is Haryana’s brand ambassador for promotion of yoga and ayurveda, said that around one lakh people would do yoga asanas on June 21 at Faridabad, where he would be organising a yoga shivir.
The Yoga Guru, while talking to the mediapersons, said that he would invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and top politicians for the yoga day celebrations in Faridabad.
After triggering a controversy with his beheading remarks against those who do not say the slogan, ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’, Ramdev said that he would also invite AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi's for performing yoga.
Notably, Ramdev's beheading remarks had come against the backdrop of Owaisi's statement that he will not chant 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' even if a knife is put to his throat.
Ramdev said, “Before the International Yoga day on June 21, yoga shivirs would be organized in Faridabad from June 17 to 21 and a door to door campaign would also be organized where volunteers will spread awareness about the benefits of yoga.”
Meanwhile, Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij on Tuesday convened a high-level meeting to review arrangements being made for the success of ‘International Yoga Day’ programmes here.
He said that the Governments of Haryana and Punjab as well as Chandigarh Administration would jointly organise ‘International Yoga Day’ in Chandigarh on June 21 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, would be present on this occasion.
He said that more than 10,000 persons from Haryana would participate in this event. The participants would include school and college students and teachers, Home Guards and Police personnel. Apart from this, yoga programmes would be organised at village, tehsil, sub-division and district levels in Haryana.
The Minister said that the Sports and AYUSH Departments would hold yoga training camps at village, block, sub-division, district and state levels with the assistance of Yog Peeth Haridwar to educate people regarding yoga.