BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur will deliver a lecture online to fellow parliamentarians at an occasion organized by the Lok Sabha Secretariat to mark the International Yoga Day on summer solstice , consistent with a politician notification.
BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur will deliver lecture online to fellow parliamentarians at event organised by Lok Sabha Secretariat to mark International Yoga Day on June 21: Official notification
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A tentative schedule notified by the LS Secretariat has listed Thakur’s lecture on ‘Yoga: how of Life’ at 12 noon. Before her, BJP MP Sumedhanand Saraswati from Rajasthan’s Sikar is scheduled to carry a session on meditation. Thakur is one among the accused within the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
In May 2019, Thakur had kicked up an enormous row during the Lok Sabha polls by calling Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a patriot, but apologised for it later and withdrew the statement. The BJP MP from Bhopal has health issues and requires assistance in walking. She usually involves parliament during a wheelchair.
In a Press conference on Friday, the Lok Sabha Secretariat informed the members about the tentative schedule for the Yoga day event.
“Members were informed that the celebration of International Day of Yoga is being organized by PRIDE, Lok Sabha Secretariat through online mode on 21st June, 2021. The celebration will contains various practical sessions and lectures on various aspects and significance of Yoga on ongoing current situation,” it said.
The event will start with yoga instructor Ami Desai holding a 50-minute practical session from 7 am, consistent with the schedule. Other sessions will start at 11:00 am. It will even have a lecture on significance of yoga in COVID and post-COVID management by V Basavaraddi, Director of Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga.