Sharing his thoughts in the 42nd edition of Mann Ki Baat programme on All India RadioIn, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that during the previous three International Yoga Days, people in India and around the world participated with great zeal and enthusiasm and this time too, there is a need to ensure that people do yoga and prompt their family, friends and all others from now itself. He called upon people to devise a campaign to spread awareness of Yoga.

PM Modi said that Yoga has now become a mass movement.

In his address,  PM Modi said that some people, through their creativity, have made him a Yoga teacher and have made 3-D animated videos of his yoga practice sessions. Modi also called upon the youth to start a Fit India Movement.PM said that Yoga has attained worldwide recognition as a measure of preventive health care. PM Modi said, Yoga has now become a mass movement.

He also talked about Agrarianism. PM said that an across-the-board exercise on agricultural reforms is being undertaken across the country to ensure that the farmers get a fair price for their crop. He said, twenty-two thousand rural haats in the country will be upgraded by creating the necessary infrastructure and these will be integrated with APMC and e-NAM platform so that farmers will not have to go to distant places for selling their produce.