Yoga Day in Yogi land

International Yoga Day (June 21) will see Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Lucknow doing surya namaskar. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will host the PM at a massive yoga demonstration , with 50,000 practitioners. Preparations are underway for the event. The United Nations General Assembly, after a call by Modi in 2014, announced June 21 as International Yoga Day. The first such celebration was organised at Rajpath in Delhi in 2015, in which representatives of about 190 countries participated. Last year, the Day's celebration was in Chandigarh.