International Yoga Day: PM Modi joins thousands at Rajpath in world record bid

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was earlier said to not do yoga himself, has joined thousands at Rajpath gunning for the record.

Four instructors from the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY) will lead the crowd. Their actions will be beamed live on 32 LED screens set up on the 1,400 metre stretch at Rajpath.

LIVE INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY UPDATES:

6.40 am: 

6.50 am: Did anyone imagine this Rajpath will become a Yogpath: PM Modi

6.55 am: We are not only celebrating a day but we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana: PM Modi.

6.58 am: I thank the @UN and the Nations of the world who co-sponsored the resolution to mark this day as International Day of Yoga: PM Modi.

6.57 am: https://twitter.com/abantika_ghosh/status/612434606533390340

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7.36 am: Yoga event ends, Modi mobbed by participants as he exits Rajpath.

7.40 am: https://twitter.com/MEAIndia/status/612436704650067968

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8.00 am: Yoga day preparations in Ahmedabad.

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9.00 am: From ice-capped Siachen, the highest battlefield in the world, to the warships in the
contentious South China Sea, Indian armed forces today joined the International Yoga Day celebrations.

Top defence officers led by Army Chief Dalbir Singh Suhag, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha and Navy’s Admiral R K
Dhowan were present at the Rajpath doing yoga where Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a mega event to mark the day.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was in Meerut for the yoga day celebrations. But perhaps the show-stealer were the soldiers doing yoga in full gear on the Siachen Glacier at a height of 18,800 feet above sea level.

9.30 am: Over 7,000 people took part in the Internationa Yoda Day celebrations in Thailand.

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