International Yoga Day 2017

It was a rainy start to the third edition of International Yoga Day. This year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Lucknow where he is performing yoga along with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and 51,000 participants at Ramabhai Ambedkar Sabha Sthal. The NDA's choice for President, Ram Nath Kovind, performed yoga at Central Park in Delhi. Indian missions in the Netherlands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States, among other countries, are holding programmes on yoga with participants from various sections of society. The United Nations declared June 21 as the International Yoga Day on December 11, 2014.