"We Should Also...": Shashi Tharoor's Take On Congress's Yoga Day Tweet
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This year's theme for International Yoga Day is 'Yoga for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam'.
On the ninth International Yoga Day, Congress today thanked former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for "popularising yoga", to which senior party leader Shashi Tharoor replied in the affirmative but gave credit to the BJP-led Centre too. Indeed! We should also acknowledge all those who revived & popularised yoga, including our government, @PMOIndia & @MEAIndia, for internationalising #InternationalYogaDay through the @UN. As I have argued for decades, yoga is a vital part of our soft power across the world &… https://t.co/WYZvcecl0Q
The Congress tweeted a picture of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru performing Yoga and said, "On International Day of Yoga, we thank Pt. Nehru, who was instrumental in popularising Yoga & even made it a part of national policy."
