Ravi Shankar Prasad performs Yoga in Delhi's Lodhi garden

 

 Thousands of people across the national capital celebrated the fifth International Yoga Day on Friday, by participating in various events to mark the day.

Some 18,000 individuals took part in an event organised in Rajpath where they performed yoga. The participants included Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.

The New Delhi Municipal Council estimated the number of participants to be even more than 18,000.

It is for the first time that the event did not use plastic yoga mats as they were replaced with Khadi mats.