Mysuru MP Pratap Simha met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday and invited him to inaugurate and participate in the International Yoga Day celebrations to be held in June.
The event was conducted in the virtual mode due to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021.
Mr. Simha, who was accompanied by his family members, highlighted the importance of Mysuru in the spread of yoga and pointed out that it was also the capital of Ashtanga Yoga and a perfect place to learn it from the masters in the city.
He said Mysuru has a rich history of contributing to the preservation, development and promotion of yoga practices through the teachings of personalities like Pattabhi Jois. ‘’Nowadays, tens of thousands of people from across the globe are benefiting from the practice of yoga which is blossoming and several yoga scholars and gurus have established base in Mysuru and nurtured the art to reach global levels’’, said Mr. Simha in his letter to the Prime Minister.
Mr. Simha said Mysuru was conducting the International Yoga Day on June 21 since its inception in 2015 in a big way by mobilising thousands of yoga practitioners from all walks of life. In 2017, Mysuru created a world record through the participation of over 55,000 people which was subsequently broken by a larger gathering at Kota, Rajasthan.
‘This year we are making an all-out effort to break the previous Guinness World Record by mobilising over 1.10 lakh people for which we are wholeheartedly requesting you to grace the occasion in Mysuru’’, said the letter addressed to the Prime Minister.
