Hassan district administration celebrated International Yoga Day in front of Hoysaleshwara Temple at Halebidu in Belur taluk, once the capital of Hoysala rulers.
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje participated in the programme. Belur MLA K.S.Lingesh, Pushpagiri Mutt seer Somashekhar Shivacharya and district officers, students, and local people attended the programme.
Speaking on the occasion, Ms. Karandlaje said yoga had caught the attention across the world due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Thousands of people from different countries had been visiting India to learn yoga. “We have the responsibility of keeping the tradition of yoga, started by sages of the past, going”, she said.
