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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead the International Day of Yoga celebrations on Tuesday from Karnataka’s Mysuru on Tuesday, June 21. More than 15,000 people will participate in the Yoga celebrations along with the Prime Minister at the heritage city.
This year the theme for the celebration is “Yoga for humanity”. The theme has been selected after much deliberation/consultation and it appropriately portrays, how during the peak of Covid-19 pandemic, yoga served the humanity in alleviating the sufferings.
Keeping the overarching theme of the 75 years of India’s independence, the Ministry for Ayush has identified 75 locations for Union Ministers to participate in the Yoga Day celebration.
While Ayush Minister Sarbananda Sonowal will be joining the Prime Minister from Mysore, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be performing Yoga in Delhi.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be performing yoga at the IAF base in Coimbatore.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be present at Purana Qila in Delhi , Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari at the Zero Milestone in Nagpur , Law Minister Kiren Rijiju at Dong village in Arunachal Pradesh, Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri at the iconic Red Fort, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal at the Marine Drive in Mumbai, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur at Hamirpur, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, at the Sun Temple in Konark in Odisha, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya at the Statue of Unity in Gujarat, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia at the Gwalior Fort, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, at the Sand Dunes in Jaisalmer, Heavy Industries Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey at Puri beach, Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy at Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi will perform yoga at Hampi.
It was during his speech at the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2014, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi first floated the idea of the International Yoga Day. The draft resolution passed by India was supported by 177 nations. The United Nations declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga on December 11, 2014.
The first International Yoga Day was celebrated on June 21, 2015.
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