Virat Kohli throws fitness challenge at PM Modi after fit India campaign goes viral

Cricketer Virat Kohli has thrown a fitness challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a fitness campaign launched by Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore went viral on the social media.

Cricketer Virat Kohli has thrown a fitness challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a fitness campaign launched by Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore went viral on the social media.

NEW DELHI: Cricketer Virat Kohli has thrown a fitness challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a fitness campaign launched by Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore went viral on the social media. Rathore took to his Twitter handle on Tuesday to urge the people towards adopting a fitter lifestyle. He also asked cricketer Virat Kohli and actor Hrithik Roshan to join a social media campaign that seeks to encourage people to keep fit. Rathore posted a video that showed him doing push-ups to press home the point.

#HumFitTohIndiaFit ????????????

Post pictures and videos of how you keep yourself fit and send a #FitnessChallenge to your friends on social media. Here's my video ????and I challenge @iHrithik, @imVkohli & @NSaina to join in???? pic.twitter.com/pYhRY1lNEm — Rajyavardhan Rathore (@Ra_THORe) May 22, 2018

He made a pitch for exercise on Twitter and urged netizens to share pictures and videos on the site to show how they kept fit. "Whenever I see the prime minister, I get inspired...He wants all of India to be fit," Rathore said in the video, before starting with a round of push-ups. "Post pictures and videos of how you keep yourself fit and send a #FitnessChallenge to your friends on social media," he tweeted. The sports minister called on Kohli, Roshan and badminton champion Saina Nehwal to join the campaign 'HumFitTohIndiaFit'. "Here's my video and I challenge @iHrithik, @imVkohli & @NSaina to join in," Rathore tweeted. In reply, Virat Kohli posted a video of him doing exercise and asked his wife Anushka Sharma, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and MS Dhoni to take up the challenge further.

I have accepted the #FitnessChallenge by @ra_THORe sir. Now I would like to challenge my wife @AnushkaSharma , our PM @narendramodi ji and @msdhoni Bhai for the same. ???? #HumFitTohIndiaFit #ComeOutAndPlay pic.twitter.com/e9BAToE6bg

— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) May 23, 2018

Actor Hrithik Roshan said this initiative makes him "so proud" and shared a video on how he commutes to his office every day.

This initiative makes me so proud ! Bravo @Ra_THORe #HumFitTohIndiaFit #FitnessChallenge this is how I commute to my office everyday. sitting static in a car is such a waste. Walk, cycle, jog, feel the earth, feel India ???????? get FIT! pic.twitter.com/twoI1vna9c

— Hrithik Roshan (@iHrithik) May 22, 2018