Grand show at Tiruchy
India has integrated world through yoga: BJP
By : R. Valayapathy
Update: 2015-06-22 07:02 GMT
Tiruchy: The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) on Sunday took pride in the fact that India has taken the credit in integrating the world through yoga, by celebrating the ‘International Yoga Day’.
The BJP’s state vice president Er. M. Subramaniam assertively made clear India’s contribution in this regard, while inaugurating the NCC’s participation in the yoga day celebrations here.
Mr Subramaniam, who is also chairman of the Oxford engineering college, said that about 200 countries across the world have today joined in the celebrations following the UN, at India’s persuasion, declaring June 21 as ‘International Yoga Day’.
Mr Subramaniam hailed the efforts of officer-commanding 2(TN) Armoured squadron, NCC Lt. Col P Kumar and his team of NCC officers for organising such a grand show of yoga drill in which about 1500 NCC students participated.
In his address, Lt. Col Kumar recalled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the NCC cadets at a rally in New Delhi, on January 28, calling upon the NCC cadets to participate in the world record attempt on the ‘International Yoga Day’. By this display of vibrant and unparalleled discipline, unity and harmony, “the NCC cadets have once again demonstrated that they are in the forefront runners of nation building,” Lt. Col. Kumar added.
In a separate event, Jointly organised by the CII-YI Tiruchy chapter and Isha foundation, around 400 participants including students of National College, Members from CII-YI and their families along with others, practiced ‘surya namaskar’ and ‘Nadisuthi’ at the session.
More than 1000 members of the public and police personnel took part in the yoga demonstration organised by the South Kailash Universal peace sanctuary, Thrumoorthy hills , (SKUPC) at the TN special police battalion grounds here. The Postal department released a special commemorative stamp, at the head post office. The day was also celebrated in the neighbouring districts.
Yoga day ropes in hundreds of youths:
The ‘Annai Sathya stadium’ here throbbed with activity on Sunday, as nearly 600 participants, across gender and age groups, performed yoga to mark ‘World Yoga Day’.
The one-hour programme from 7 a.m, dovetailing suryanamaskar and several asanas, was organised by the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu, (SDAT). The ‘Art of Living’ of Sri Sri Ravishankar, Vivekananda Kendra, Nehru Yuva Kendra and Ren Academy volunteers supported it.
Satheesh, yoga master of ‘Art of Living’ said that yoga helped in improving both mental and physical health. It will become a way of living once practised and those who realise the benefits step by step will not leave it. “We have done it for prisoners, patients etc. They have shown tremendous improvement. Yoga is our country’s gift to world. But we forgot it in the middle. Now awareness is coming. Youth should practise yoga”, Satheesh said.
At Periyar Maniammai university too. The power of World yoga day has been such the global event on Sunday was celebrated at Periyar Maniammai University at Vallam near here, an institution named after the wife of the late rationalist and atheist leader Periyar.
The university’s sprawling ground was filled with NCC cadets who performed varios ‘asanas’ and breathing exercises. The cadets were drawn from the university other colleges and schools.