Top cops to get yoga lessons from PM Modi in Gujarat

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s love for yoga is well known. And this time around, the prime minister is taking his penchant for yoga to the nation’s top police officers.

Modi is likely to lead a yoga session for top cops at the All-India Conference of Directors General/Inspectors General of Police at Dhordo village in Kutch district from December 18-20. “Five yoga instructors have been hired to conduct daily yoga sessions for cops at 6 am,” Gujarat Director General of Police P C Thakur was quoted by the Times of India. “The prime minister is likely to participate in the 45-minute yoga session.”

The agenda at the conference includes internal security, coastal security, deradicalisation of youths amid the Islamic State threat, misuse of social media and crimes against women.

A source close to the even said that the top cops will be treated to a vegetarian fare. “Gujarati khaman, dhokla and Gujarati thali will be there for lunch, while dinner will be a mixed spread of regional flavours,” he said.

Modi, a yoga enthusiast, had last hit the mat in public on Delhi's Rajpath on June 21, the International Yoga Day. Around 35,000 school children, bureaucrats and diplomats had participated in the event.  He was also the first to introduce yoga for bureaucrats at a conference in Dhordo, a village of about 300 people, in 2009.