International Yoga Day: PM Modi leads the way as world does yoga

International Yoga Day is being celebrated globally and across India. Here are all the updates. 

PM Modi lead the way doing Yoga in Ranchi where he gave the message of spreading yoga to the villages, to the poor, to the tribal. He said that popularity of yoga has grown leaps and bounds in last five years with youth taking lead. 

Here are some of the other top leaders who did Yoga on IYD 2019. 

(Rajnath Singh at Rajpath)

(President Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhawan)

(JP Nadda doing yoga in Delhi)

7:44 IST Friday, 21 June 2019

 

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Amit Shah doing yoga at Rohtak 

7:40 IST Friday, 21 June 2019

#WATCH Jharkhand: Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga at Prabhat Tara ground in Ranchi on #InternationalDayofYoga pic.twitter.com/VNRual0L5g

— ANI (@ANI) June 21, 2019

7:17 IST Friday, 21 June 2019

Yoga Asanas have now started. People following the cue of the yoga master who is conducting the event. PM Modi among thousands of participants in the Yoga event. 

Jharkhand: Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga at Prabhat Tara ground in Ranchi on #InternationalDayofYoga pic.twitter.com/gUAEYg8Gr6

— ANI (@ANI) June 21, 2019

Peace and harmony have always been associated with Yoga and Yoga can further Unity and can heal several challenges the world faces: PM @narendramodi#InternationalDayofYoga #YogaDay2019 pic.twitter.com/n3AElPEHnY

— PIB India (@PIB_India) June 21, 2019

7:08 IST Friday, 21 June 2019

Today Prabhat Tara Maidan is shining on the world map; I thank all of the lakhs of people across the world who have gathered to practice #Yoga: PM @narendramodi #InternationalDayofYoga #YogaDay2019 pic.twitter.com/SmQ9ksX6te

— PIB India (@PIB_India) June 21, 2019

6:58 IST Friday, 21 June 2019

PM Modi highlights how the government has promoted Yoga in the last five years as a measure of a preventive medication. He says yoga has become much more popular with youth enthusiastically taking to Yoga with 'innovative and creative ideas'. This year the theme is Yoga for Heart Care Awareness. 

6:40 IST Friday, 21 June 2019

6:35 IST Friday, 21 June 2019

Nepal: People perform Yoga in Janaki Temple premises in Janakpur, at an event organised by the Embassy of India on 5th #InternationalDayofYoga pic.twitter.com/qZvOkhIcno

— ANI (@ANI) June 21, 2019

6:34 IST Friday, 21 June 2019

Baba Ramdev and Devendra Fadnavis did yoga in Mumbai in early morning

#WATCH: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev performs yoga along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Nanded on #InternationalDayofYoga. #Maharashtra pic.twitter.com/XiIqXZCblp

— ANI (@ANI) June 21, 2019

The first International Day of Yoga was observed all over the world on June 21, 2015, when over 30,000 people including Prime Minister Modi performed yoga at the Rajpath in New Delhi.The idea of International Day of Yoga was first proposed by Prime Minister Modi during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 27 September 2014.

With agency inputs