PM Modi leads International Yoga Day celebrations in Chandigarh today
Author yuvamind
CHANDIGARH: Thousands of people from each state have gathered on Tuesday at Capitol Complex of Chandigarh on the occasion of International Yoga Day in the presence of PM Narendra Modi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated it with 30,000 yoga enthusiasts at Capitol Complex.
Prime Minister requested the people during the celebration to embrace yoga for better physical and mental health.
Addressing the massive community of people, PM Modi thanked the international community to recognise the importance of yoga. He said, “The world supported the idea of International Day of Yoga. All sections of society came together in this endeavour.”
He said that Yoga connects to health. Health is everything for every people because good health is good mind. Particularly, Yoga protect from diabetes disease. It is a kind of medicine for diabetes.
"In India, a lot of patients suffering from diabetes disease nowadays. We might be able to get rid of this disease or not but with the help of yoga, diabetes can be controlled. Can we start a public campaign to suggest measures in yoga to the common man suffering from diabetes," he said.
"It will be an achievement if we can help in treating diabetes. From next year, we can take another disease. But I want that for good health, we should address any one disease every year. We should run a public campaign with an aim to address one disease."
PM Modi said, “With zero budget, yoga provides health assurance and it does not discriminate between rich and poor.”