Now, PM Modi stars in Yoga animation video

Now, PM Modi stars in Yoga animation video

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The videos, also published on Modi’s official YouTube page and heavily promoted by party members on social media, depict a 3D-cartoon of the BJP leader practising poses such as the tadasana and the trikosana.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been espousing Yoga for many years, has become the instructor for the first time in an animation video released on his Twitter handle.

In the video, the prime minister himself is seen demonstrating different poses.

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The videos, also published on Modi’s official YouTube page and heavily promoted by party members on social media, depict a 3D-animationof the BJP leader practising poses such as the tadasana and the trikosana.

The BJP leader has made yoga a key part of India’s global outreach, convincing the United Nations to establish 21 June as International Yoga Day and leading thousands of people across India in yoga demonstrations each year.

Modi introduced the video during his monthly radio programme Mann Ki Baat. The theme of Prime Minister's last Mann Ki Baat was ''fit and healthy India''.

Modi also created a yoga ministry soon after his election in 2014 and made yoga practice compulsory in some schools.

Yoga has surged in popularity in the west since the 1980s, with about 36.7 million practioners in the US in 2016, up from 20.4 million in 2012, according to The Guardian news website. The market is worth about $16bn (£12bn) in the US and $80bn (£74bn) globally, it added.