President Pranab Mukherjee urges people to make yoga a way of life

NEW DELHI: As the International Day of

Yoga

was celebrated the world over, President

Pranab

Mukherjee inaugurated a mass yoga demonstration at Rashtrapati Bhavan and urged Indians to make yoga a way of life.

Speaking at the event, Mukherjee said yoga was a holistic approach to physical and mental health, adding that it was an ancient Indian practice which was a cure for many diseases and health disorders. The President recalled that the United Nations had declared June 21 as International Day of Yoga on the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Mukherjee welcomed participants to the mass demonstration and urged them to practice yoga every day as a fit mind and fit body was the abode of god. Later, PM Modi took to Twitter thank the President for inspiring the nation on Yoga day.