Prime Minster Narendra Modi led the event to mark the second International Yoga Day celebrations in Chandigarh early on Tuesday morning. Over 30,000 people gathered to perform yoga asanas at Chandigarh’s Capital Complex and the theme of this year’s event was ‘Connect the Youth’.
And here are some photos from the event:
Smriti Irani took the lead in Bhopal
M Venkaiah Naidu was at Connaught Place Delhi for his second yoga event in as many days
Delhi Lt.Governor Najeeb Jung and BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi were also in Delhi
Home Minister Rajnath Singh led the event in Lucknow in his home state
Ravi Shankar Prasad was in Patna
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was in Kanpur
BJP Chief Amit Shah was with Baba Ramdev in Faridabad
Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan was in Hajipur in Bihar
BJP MP Maheish Girri observed the day despite being on a hunger strike outside Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s house
Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu and Union Railway Minster Suresh Prabhu were in Vijaywada
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje and BJP leader Om Mathur were in Jaipur
Navy personnel also participated in an event on an aircraft carrier
Bipashu Basu lent some glamour to the event with Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and Union Minister Ananth Kumar in Bengaluru
Actor-Filmmaker Arbaaz Khan was part of the event in Mumbai
And across the world, events organised to mark the day were a grand success: