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PM Modi leads record 3 lakh yoga participants in Visakhapatnam
Key Facts
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the 2025 International Yoga Day event in Visakhapatnam, performing the Common Yoga Protocol with over 3.01 lakh participants on RK Beach, setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering for a yoga session at one place, surpassing the 2023 record of 1.47 lakh participants set in Surat.
- The 2025 International Yoga Day theme, 'Yoga for One Earth, One Health', highlights the connection between individual well-being and planetary health, echoing India's vision of global wellness.
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- The event was held along a 26-km corridor from RK Beach to Bhogapuram, with over 3 lakh people performing yoga simultaneously, monitored by over 1,200 CCTV cameras and drones and secured by around 10,000 police personnel.1
- The logistics for the event included nearly 10,000 vehicles, comprising 3,200 fifty-seater buses and 4,095 forty-seater buses to transport participants from various districts in north coastal Andhra Pradesh.
- The month-long Yogandhra campaign engaged 2.17 crore participants statewide leading up to the International Yoga Day celebrations, creating several records.
- The yoga contingent at RK Beach included 1,438 trained yoga demonstrators and 907 certified instructors to guide the large gathering.
- Prime Minister Modi emphasized that yoga is a powerful agent of global good amid rising global unrest, urging the international community to embrace inner peace as a global policy.
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The Yoga Day event will be held along a 26-km corridor from RK Beach in Visakhapatnam to Bhogapuram, where over 3 lakh people can perform Yoga simultaneously.
Hindustan Times
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading the national celebration from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, performing the Common Yoga Protocol (CYP) with over 3 lakh participants.
Timesofindia
He expressed concern over the rising violence and unrest in the world and said, “Today, humanity faces a deep crisis of peace and stability.”
Indiatoday
More than 25,000 tribal students from Alluri Sitharama Raju district participated in a massive yoga session in Visakhapatnam on Friday, setting the stage for a new world record.
Thehindu
The Prime Minister will perform the Common Yoga Protocol (CYP) with over 3 lakh participants at the Visakhapatnam venue, synchronised with over 10 lakh locations across the country under the 'Yoga Sangam' initiative, the Ministry of AYUSH said.
Tribuneindia
“The world is looking at Yoga as powerful agent of Global Good” – PM Modi Under the visionary leadership of PM Shri Narendra Modi, International Day of Yoga 2025 once again brings the world’s focus to wellness, harmony, and global unity.
Blog
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Shri Yogendra ji was the founder of the world’s oldest organised Yoga centre—The Yoga Institute, Mumbai (est. 1918)—and devoted his life to showing that Yoga is not merely about the external body, but about inner health and living a balanced life.
News18
2025 marks the 11th International Day of Yoga, a global celebration stretching back to the first observance in 2015. The official theme for International Yoga Day 2025 is 'Yoga for One Earth, One Health', which was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his 'Mann Ki Baat' broadcast on March 30, 2025, and was later confirmed by the United Nations.
Business-standard
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With the participation of over three lakh people, the main national event held here on Saturday to mark the 11th International Day of Yoga, created a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering for a yoga session at one place.
Ndtv
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the international community to embrace “inner peace” as a “global policy’ and make yoga a collective global responsibility.
Thenewsmill