Crafting a nation of fit and healthy lifestyle, LS speaker Om Birla launches Fit India Movement in Parliament house

New Delhi, September 7: Striving hard towards creating a change, India kick-started the Fit India Movement with an aim to have a healthy fit lifestyle. Incorporating the idea, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday launched the Fit India drive at the Parliament House stating that it should become a ‘people’s movement’.

 

Various Union ministers and other parliamentarians joined Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in the Fit India drive at the Parliament House. Speaking of launching the movement in the Parliament house, Om Birla said that the MPs should ensure that people in their constituencies take to the fitness drive and there should be a ‘healthy competition" among them to be one of the fittest places in the country.

Birla added that as yoga gained in popularity since the start of the International Yoga Day at India's behest, Fit India Movement too should become a ‘people's movement’. Birla led the participants to a walk around the complex before they were briefed by instructors about various exercises.

Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said the message is that only a healthy nation can become a strong nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Fit India Movement on August 29 to mark the National Sports Day.