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Muslim YOGA - ketchim - 06-23-2015
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than 35,000 people took part in a mass yoga programme,
setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest yoga class at a single venue.
There was some controversy about it domestically, though :
when some from India's Muslim minority worried about a "Hindu agenda"
Re: Muslim YOGA - ketchim - 06-23-2015
Then came the Twitter storm.
It happened because some noticed that India's Vice-President Hamid Ansari
- who is Muslim - was not present at the event
Re: Muslim YOGA - ketchim - 06-23-2015
Ansari's office responded that he was "never invited" to the event.
"The vice-president only attends those programmes in which the minister concerned invites him as per protocol,"
Re: Muslim YOGA - ketchim - 06-23-2015
Shripad Yasso Naik, who presides over for AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy),
then clarified that the invitation was not sent due to a "warrant of precedence".
"When we call the prime minister, we cannot call the vice-president… We invited everyone, all the ministers, all the chief ministers,
but according to the rule we couldn't send Ansari an invitation.
I have admitted my mistake. It must have been avoided. Mistakes are made, we are only humans,"