23 world records set at Yoga Day event in Gujarat
A total of 23 Guinness World Records were set at an International Yoga Day event in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Wednesday. More than 54,000 people participated in the event, beating the earlier record of most people doing yoga by a margin of over 18,000. Further, individual records like most number of Surya Namaskars by one person were set.
Ahmedabad, June 21 (PTI) The International Yoga Day event held at Ahmedabads GMDC ground today entered the Guinness World Records Book with over 54,000 persons, led by Yoga guru Ramdev, participating in it to perform various asanas. The number, however, is drastically lower than Ramdevs earlier claim of three lakh participants in the event. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani received certificate of the record from the Guinness Book officials at Gandhinagar in the afternoon. The previous record was set in Delhi on June 21, 2015, when 35,985 people performed yoga at Rajpath with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As per the government release here, 54,522 people took part in the Yoga Day event at GMDC ground today, beating the earlier record by a margin of over 18,000. Besides, 22 other records, such as the maximum number of Surya Namaskars by one person, were also set during todays event and certified by the Guinness Book officials. Ramdev had claimed earlier in the morning that around three lakh people did yoga with him. "Today is the most important day for me, as more than three lakh people performed yoga at one place to set a new world record. We have broken the previous world record, which was set in the presence of our PM, by a huge margin," Ramdev had told reporters after the event. BJP president Amit Shah, Chief Minister Rupani, Deputy CM Nitin Patel, former Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, several political leaders besides IAS, IPS officers and the high court judges took part in the event. Amid early morning drizzle, Ramdev made the participants stretch their limbs to perform various yogic postures. Leaders of various faiths were specially invited to the event, organised jointly by the BJP government in the state and Ramdevs Patanjali Yogpeeth. While giving instructions to participants during the event, Ramdev invited Shah and Rupani to join him on the dais and follow him in striking yogic postures. 