New Delhi: On the occasion of the 12th International Yoga Day (IYD), Prime Minister Narendra Modi led celebrations at Kolkata’s Red Road on Sunday morning, while taking part in a mega event as thousands joined open-air yoga sessions wideness the state for the first time.
Where did PM Modi perform yoga?
On the occasion of the 12th International Yoga Day, PM Narendra Modi performed yoga with the public in Kolkata. He was accompanied by West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and several members of his cabinet. While addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister said that yoga has wilt the world's largest polity festival, bringing together people from variegated countries and cultures.
#WATCH | West Bengal | Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs Yoga on the occasion of the 12th International Day of Yoga in Kolkata.
The theme for this year's Yoga Day is 'Yoga For Healthy Ageing'
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— ANI (@ANI) June 21, 2026What did PM Modi say?
In his inaugural address, PM Modi said that "Our target must be to be increasingly energetic at 50 than we were at 30. We must be increasingly resistant to lifestyle diseases at 70 than we were at 50."
"Yoga is not just for a largest personal life but for the world's future," PM Modi said.
The yoga celebrations started at 6:30 am when the Prime Minister reached the venue from Lok Bhawan.
#WATCH | West Bengal | Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs Yoga on the occasion of the 12th International Day of Yoga in Kolkata.
The theme for this year's Yoga Day is 'Yoga For Healthy Ageing'
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— ANI (@ANI) June 21, 2026"June 21 is the longest day in our part of the world, and now it is the day the world celebrates its biggest festival. Yoga has unfluctuating the world to India. It brings people together. Today I offer my weightier wishes to the world community," PM Modi said.
"It is a special occasion for me to be in Bengal on International Yoga Day. Swami Vivekananda introduced Yoga to the world. It gives me a spiritual feeling to take part in a polity yoga event here. Rabindranath Tagore said we vest to the world community. Rishi Aurobindo said Yoga connects us to spirituality plane if we cannot finger it immediately," PM Modi said.
What did PM Modi say well-nigh age?
PM Modi while addressing the people at the Yoga Day event in Kolkata said that in India, from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, from North-East and Bengal in the east to Saurashtra in the west, the unshortened country seems to be filled with the energy of yoga.
"This year's theme is Yoga for Healthy Ageing. Yoga can alimony us healthy plane as we age. It ways that age does not reduce human potential. Yoga can help human life aspire for growth. Our target must be to be increasingly energetic at 50 than we were at 30. We must be increasingly resistant to lifestyle diseases at 70 than we were at 50. This is where Yoga can help us," Modi said.
"Yoga can help us tune our persons to be flexible. It can increase our energy level. It can help us be calm, lead a stress-free life and alimony lifestyle diseases away. With regular practice, yoga teaches us to be lifelong learners of our soul and mind. The increasingly we know ourselves, the largest we can manage ourselves.
Did PM Modi help people?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi helped people correct their posture while doing yoga on the occasion of 12th International Yoga Day in Kolkata.
#WATCH | West Bengal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi helps participants correct their posture as they perform Yoga on the occasion of the 12th International Day of Yoga in Kolkata.
The theme for this year's Yoga Day is 'Yoga For Healthy Ageing'
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— ANI (@ANI) June 21, 2026
