Modi promotes Yoga for political advantage: Congress
New Delhi, June 21: Congress on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not practising yga with the right intention and only promoting it for political advantage.
Also noting that yoga cannot improve India's economic situation, the party also accused Modi and the BJP of "fragmenting the society" and said this cannot be healed through yoga.
"Modi and his party have fragmented the society. You cannot heal it through yoga. Yoga can keep your body healthy but not the society. It cannot improve the economic situation in the country," said Congress spokesperson Pramod Tiwari.
"In order to do that, they (the Modi government) will have to change their way of working. They will have to take everyone along," he added.
"The first theory of yoga is one should not show off. This is a very personal thing if someone is practising it. Modiji has breached that theory.
"He should promote it but Modiji doesn't practise yoga with the right intention.... he wants to use its promotion for political advantage," said Tiwari.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that yoga has the power to unite individuals, society, country and the world at large, and has emerged as a major unifying force globally.
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Politics, int'l relations now moving towards 'darkness,' says Rahul Gandhi
Kollam(Kerala) (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that politics and international relations in current times were "running towards darkness" and away from knowledge.
Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, further said that there was no attempt to understand the other person, be it politics or international relations, and violence was resorted to over disagreements.
"Today, we see in our politics, in international relations, that everyone is running towards darkness and away from knowledge. There is no attempt to understand the other person, you just bomb and kill them."
"It is the same in our politics. You don't agree with someone, you attack that person or become violent towards them," he alleged.
He was speaking at an event here commemorating the centenary of a meeting between Mahatma Gandhi and reformist saint Sree Narayana Guru.
He said that both Gandhi and Narayana Guru were against such violence and advocated love, respect, forgiveness and understanding between the people.
