World to celebrate International Yoga day today. In India the stage is all set to hold the third edition of International Yoga Day on Wednesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath performing Yoga along with 51,000 participants in Lucknow.
Besides the Yoga enthusiasts, several dignitaries, politicians and bureaucrats will gather at Lucknow’s Ramabhai Ambedkar Sabha Sthal, where the Yoga rehearsals have been going on for over a month now.
To mark the importance of Yoga—which began in India 5,000 years ago—Indian missions in the Netherlands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States, among other countries, will hold programmes on Yoga with participants from various sections of the society.
In an attempt to make the International Yoga Day programme in Lucknow a success, various organisations, NGOs and Yoga gurus have held camps and practice sessions.
Adityanath and Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik have inspected the overall preparations, including the security arrangements, for the mega event, and attended full-dress rehearsals on Monday morning.
According to the Ayush Ministry, the programme will start at 6 am on Thursday.
Earlier, the Chief Minister met a 72-member student delegation of the City Montessori School in Lucknow, which will be representing India in New York at the third International Yoga Day festivities on June 21.
The United Nations declared June 21 as the International Yoga Day on December 11, 2014. The first International Yoga Day function held on June 21, 2015, at Rajpath in the national capital witnessed Narendra Modi performing Yoga along with over 200 million people across the country and over 37,000 people in Delhi alone.
The second edition was held in Chandigarh with the participation of over 30,000 people in the presence of the Prime Minister.
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