India set two world records on International Yoga Day with the Yoga performance at Rajpath, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The record for largest yoga class, with 35,985 people, and the other for most nationalities participating in a single yoga event — 84. Marco Frigatti, Senior Vice-President of Guinness World Record, who made the announcement at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, said it was “an astounding achievement and a very rare one”. The mega event was being closely monitored by officials of the Guinness World Records present at Rajpath, including the foreign press. Meanwhile, Minister of AYUSH Shripad Naik said, “It is a matter of pride for India that we have broken two records on one day. First, 35,985 participants performed asanas at a single venue and 84 nationalities participated in the event.”