Congress performs by Greta toolkit, performs politics on International Yoga Day

Every 12 months June 21 is widely known as International Yoga Day. This 12 months too, hundreds of individuals from throughout the globe marked the day by practising yoga asanas, a present of Hinduism to all the world.
On predictable traces, the celebration of International Yoga Day didn’t sit effectively with Congress social gathering leaders, who used the event to both undermine the revered cultural apply and tried to dissociate it with Hinduism or use it to assault their political opponents.
Senior Congress chief and former social gathering president Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter to make a veiled assault in opposition to the BJP and PM Modi within the title of International Yoga Day. In a tweet, Gandhi stated, “It’s #YogaDay Not #HideBehindYogaDay.”
Source: TwitterRahul Gandhi’s indirect assault in opposition to the central authorities was not misplaced on social media customers. Instead of genuinely wishing individuals around the globe International Yoga Day, he used the event to hawk petty political propaganda in opposition to the Modi authorities.
Just like Gandhi, different Congress leaders displayed no compunction in expressing their disdain for Yoga. While the world is celebrating the seventh International Yoga Day, Congress chief Abhishek Manu Singhvi posted a controversial tweet, attempting to dissociate Yoga from Hinduism and peddling the identical hoary chorus “Yoga is not Hindu” that motivated people use to delink Yoga with its Hindu roots.
Singhvi argued in his tweet that chanting Om wouldn’t strengthen Yoga and neither would chanting the title of Allah weaken the apply.
Source: TwitterCongress mouthpiece National Herald additionally carried out an assault on Yoga on the International Yoga Day, sermonising that Yoga isn’t Hindu
Source: TwitterSenior Congress chief Shashi Tharoor belittled Yoga on the seventh International Yoga Day when he was requested by a Twitter person what his favorite asana is. The Thiruvananthapuram MP shared a graphic of a lady, sitting on a settee chair and listening to music along with her cat. “Sofasana” the caption of the image stated. “This one speaks for me”, Tharoor tweeted.
Source: TwitterWhile this isn’t the primary time that Tharoor had mocked Yoga on Twitter. On National Yoga Day in February 2021, Tharoor had posted a sexually suggestive meme to ridicule Yoga whereas attempting to criticise the Modi authorities.
The meme was of common American animated sitcom sequence The Simpsons the place Marge Simpson is proven posing in a ‘Yoga’ pose on all fours and asking her ‘Yoga’ teacher what pose is that this known as. Her ‘Yoga’ teacher says it’s the ‘Indian taxpayer’ pose. Soon, netizens known as out his sexually suggestive meme and lack of sophistication whereas being important of the federal government.
Congress leaders enjoying by the Greta Thunberg toolkit
Congress leaders’ disapproving remarks for Yoga completely jibed with the directions issued within the toolkit launched by Swedish protestor Greta Thunberg earlier this 12 months. In February 2021, Thunberg had inadvertently tweeted a ‘toolkit’, a prepared reckoner on methods to take part in a ‘farmer protest’ in India in opposition to the brand new farm legal guidelines. The toolkit revealed a world conspiracy to defame India. One of the factors was to defame ‘Yoga’ and ‘Chai’ on worldwide platforms. 
Greta Thunberg toolkitThe Greta Thunberg toolkit, which was reportedly created and shared extensively by Bengaluru-based ‘activist’ Disha Ravi and a lawyer Nikita Jacob for pro-Khalistan organisation Poetic Justice Foundation spoke about defaming Yoga and Chai on worldwide platforms. One of the targets talked about within the Greta Toolkit was to “disrupt yoga and chai image of India in general”.
On the seventh International Yoga Day, the tweets from Congress leaders, together with senior chief Rahul Gandhi, reveals that the social gathering is enjoying by the Greta Thunberg toolkit, slandering Yoga to mount an assault in opposition to the Modi authorities.