As the country is gearing up to celebrate International Yoga day on June 21, Haryana Chief Minister, his Cabinet Colleagues, MlAs, MPs, judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court, IAS officials and other senior officials of the State Government were seen sweating it out on yoga mats and trying out different asanas on Monday.
Ahead of the International Yoga day, the entire top brass of Haryana and other prominent faces of the State, came together to perform Yoga early Monday morning on the inaugural day of two days ‘Yoga Prashikshan Shivar’ organised under the guidance of Haryana’s brand ambassador for yoga and ayurveda, Swami Ramdev.
Ramdev performed yoga asanas with a large number of participants at Tau Devi lal Sports Complex at Panchkula on the first day of the yoga camp. The session which began at 5 am lasted for more than two hours and witnessed Chief Minister Manohar lal and his Cabinet performing various Yog Asanas enthusiastically.
Manohar lal, 61, received words of praise from Ramdev for performing ‘Surya Namaskar’ and different yoga asanas enthusiastically at the camp while his two Cabinet Ministers Anil Vij and Ram Bilas Sharma were told to shed some extra kilos by Ramdev, in a lighter vein.
Haryana has a government of Babas. Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar is bachelor like me… And, Health Minister Anil Vij also looks like a Baba and he is also a bachelor, quipped Ramdev while performing yoga.
He added, “Bachelors have less than tension than others.” While most of the BJP MlAs, MPs and senior officers of the State Government turned up to attend the two days camp, the opposition leaders stayed away from the yoga camp.