Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth will organise a mega yoga event at Haryana’s Faridabad on June 21, which is likely to be attended by more than one lakh people .
Ramdev, who is Haryana’s brand ambassador for promotion of yoga and ayurveda, has said that around one lakh people would do yoga asanas on June 21 at Faridabad, which is being billed as the largest ever gathering to collectively do yoga at a single place.
The current Guinness world record for the largest yoga gathering is currently held by the Union Ministry of Ayush which organised an event at Rajpath in New Delhi on the occasion of International Yoga Day last year in which 35, 985 participants, including PM Modi, practised yoga.
‘“Before the International Yoga day on June 21, yoga shivir was organised in Faridabad from June 17 to 21 and a door to door campaign was also organised where volunteers spreaded awareness about the benefits of yoga,’” said Ramdev
To celebrate International Yoga Day in a befitting manner in the state on June 21, Haryana Government has decided to organize yoga programmes at district level.While Haryana and Punjab Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki, Chief Minister Manohar lal and Health Minister Anil Vij would participate in the national level programme in Chandigarh, other Ministers of Haryana will participate at the district-level yoga programmes to be organised in the State.
The International Yoga Day would be celebrated as yoga festival in all districts and blocks of Haryana. A minimum of 2,100 participants would take part in the district level progamme and about 500 in block level programme, said Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij.
He said that apart from this, ‘Yog Mahotsav’ was being organised at all district headquarters on June 19 and 20. Activities such as declamation contest, painting, poster making, quizzes and cultural evenings were being organised, he added.
lakhs of people across the state would perform yoga together at district, sub-divisional, tehsil and village-level programmes on June 21, said the Minister.