Members of 'Dilli Ki Yogshala' joined the Delhi CM along with deputy minister Manish Sisodia at the stadium for the yoga session.
International Yoga Day 2022
Yoga Day 2022: On International Yoga Day, June 21, 2022, the Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal performed yoga asanas along with hundreds of people at the Thyagaraj Stadium. The minister said that his government aims to teach yoga to school children. Members of 'Dilli Ki Yogshala' joined the Delhi CM along with deputy minister Manish Sisodia at the stadium for the yoga session.
Addressing participants, CM Kejriwal said that his government aims at ensuring every Delhiite practices yoga daily. "If the habit (of practising yoga) is inculcated among children, they will be associated with it throughout their lives. It is our objective to teach yoga to children and see how it can be started in schools," he said.
The minister also talked about the improvement in the healthcare infrastructure in Delhi and the works done by his government to make it possible. He said that if yoga becomes a part of every Delhiite’s life then people will not need to go to hospitals, he added.
Speaking about the 'Dilli ki Yogshala' programme, Kejriwal said that he learnt yoga free of cost and it will be free for Delhiites too.
"We have to take yoga from the stage where thousands are practising it to one where lakhs practice it. Some people criticise me free yoga classes. I learnt it (yoga) for free in Class 8, so it will be free for the people as every essential thing in life, like air, is free," he said.
Over 17,000 Delhiites including men, women, rich and poor, practice yoga daily at 546 places across the city as part of free classes under 'Dilli ki Yogshala', the chief minister said. During the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the Kejriwal government launched free online yoga classes for COVID-19 patients in home isolation. More than 4,700 such patients participated in online yoga sessions conducted by trained instructors, he said.
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