Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu falls asleep while performing Yoga
New Delhi, June 24: While everybody including Prime Minister Narendra Modi were performing yoga asanas on International Yoga Day [In Pics: How politicians celebrated maiden International Day of Yoga], Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu seems to have taken a liking to one asana in particular- the Shavasan.
Pictures of Prabhu dozing off while performing yoga on International Yoga Day in Kerala have gone viral. The pictures were first published in a Malyalam daily but soon went viral online.
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#InternationalDayofYoga
inaugurator
in
Kerala,
Railway
Minister
Mr.
Suresh
Prabhu
slept
while
doing
Yoga
:D
:D
pic.twitter.com/M543mndLmT
—
Leons
Peter
(@leonspeter)
June
22,
2015
In the pictures Prabhu is seen performing the 'shavasan', a yoga asan which requires an individual to lie down like a corpse in a relaxed position.
But Prabhu ended taking up a short nap only to be awaken by a volunteer. Later that day, Prabhu tweeted:
Launched
Yoga
Day
in
Kochi-
Ernakulam
attended
by
several
enthusiasts,practitioners
in
very
large
numbers.
I
did
many
aasanas
to
refresh
me
—
Suresh
Prabhu
(@sureshpprabhu)
June
21,
2015
Meanwhile, twitteratti went into a tizzy and Prabhu became the butt of jokes. Even Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tweeted :
That's
the
only
yoga
pose
I
can
master!
@sureshpprabhu
https://t.co/uZPSCTCEVQ
—
Shashi
Tharoor
(@ShashiTharoor)
June
22,
2015
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