Big Moment for India! PM Modi Creates World Record At UN Headquarters

Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India is on his visit to the United States where he will be addressing a joint session of the US Congress. He is the first Indian who will be doing this for the second time. Now, the PM has set another milestone in the foreign land. On Wednesday, PM Modi celebrated Yoga Day at the UN headquarters in New York. He has set the World Record for seeing participation of people from most nationalities at the Yoga Day event. He now has his name registered in the Guinness Book of World Records.

9th International Yoga Day

Since its declaration by the UN General Assembly in 2014, the world has celebrated the International Day of Yoga on June 21 every year. This year, the Yoga session hosted at the UN headquarters had participants from the greatest number of nationalities, setting a Guinness World Record.

At the PM Modi-led yoga programme, other well-known individuals also took part. Award-winning Indian chef and restaurateur Vikas Khanna, well-known Hollywood actor Richard Gere, acclaimed storyteller Jay Shetty, American vocalist Falguni Shah, and others were on the roster of notables. Before the event began, Gere arrived at the UN building and remarked, “It is a very nice feeling here today.”

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The World Record

The world record was confirmed by Guinness World Records official adjudicator Michael Empric. He said, “Today there was a Guinness World Records title attempt for most nationalities in a Yoga lesson. The mark to be was 140 nationalities. Today in New York, at the UN, they have 135. It is a new Guinness world records title.”

“Yoga means to unite,” said PM on Yoga day

Addressing the event, ahead of the Yoga session, PM Modi said, “We’ve gathered here at the meeting point of entire humanity. I am delighted to see you all and thank you all for coming. I am told that almost every nationality is represented here today. Yoga means to unite, so you are coming together is an expression of another form of Yoga.”

“It comes from India, it is an old tradition. Yoga is free from copyright, free from patents, and free from royalty,” he added.