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Hundreds of thousands of people across the country participated in the annual International Yoga Day celebrations Tuesday.
As part of this elaborate programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined more than 15,000 people at Mysore Palace grounds for a 45-minute yoga session. PM Modi spoke about the importance of holding yoga sessions at historical sites and said, “The experience of collective yoga at the historical sites of India is like tying together India’s past, India’s diversity, and India’s expansion”.
This year, the eighth edition of International Day of Yoga coincided with the 75 years of India’s Independence and to mark the occasion, Union Ministers also participated in events at 75 iconic locations across the country.
While Union ministers marked Yoga Day at historical sites such as the Sun Temple in Konark, Dal Lake in Srinagar, and Mysore Palace grounds, personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) practised yoga on the freezing grounds of the Rohtang Pass at an altitude of 14,000 ft in snow. Photographs and videos of Yoga Day celebrations across India have flooded social media.
This year’s Yoga Day theme is ‘Yoga for Humanity’. Emphasising the importance of the theme, PM Modi said in his address in Mysuru, “Yoga has now become a global festival. Yoga is not only for any individual but for the entire humanity. Therefore, this time the theme of International Day of Yoga is ‘Yoga for Humanity’”.
Yoga Day was first observed on June 21, 2015, after the United Nations declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga on December 11, 2014.
