Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will lead a contingent of around 1,000 participants at the fourth International Yoga Day function to be held at the Raj Bhawan here on Thursday morning.
Though the Yoga Day would be celebrated throughout the state with state ministers attending functions in all the 75 districts, the state-level function will be held on the lawns of the Raj Bhawan in lucknow.
The Raj Bhawan spokesman said that besides the Union Home Minister, the Governor and the Chief Minister, the other participants would include Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, and state Ayush minister Dharam Singh Saini.
"The Yoga Day function would be held on the Raj Bhawan lawns between 06:00 hours to 08:00 hours and the participants would wear white T-shirt with Kumbh-2019 symbol printed on it," he said.
Besides, Raj Bhawan, the Yoga Day celebration will be held in 10 parks of lucknow where special yoga sessions will be held on that day. Big lED screens will be put up in these parks. Volunteers of different organisations like Patanjali, Art of living, Brahma Kumaris and cadets of NCC and personnel of civil police and para military forces will take part in this function.
Rehearsals were being done on the lawns of Raj Bhawan for the last two days. Governor Ram Naik also took part in the yoga rehearsals along with the volunteers of different organisations.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party state president Mahendra Nath Pandey has asked party leaders to actively take part in this event. He himself will lead the volunteers in a function in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency Varanasi.
All the MPs, state ministers and legislators have also been allotted districts where they would be present during the Yoga Day celebrations.