PM Narendra Modi may lead a yoga session for police officers during a conference in Hyderabad.
Highlights
- Senior cops to meet with PM Modi in Hyderabad this week
- Last year, he led yoga session at the summit
- Keep this year's exercises simpler, please, say senior cops
Ahead of a possible yoga session with the Prime Minister, the country's top police officers are trying to get in shape - but not very hard.
Tomorrow, when they gather at a conference in Hyderabad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the Director General of Police of each state and senior paramilitary officers.
What is not clear is whether,
like last year, PM Modi will lead an early morning yoga class at the three-day session. At that time, the group practised the
Surya Namaskar (Sun Salute) and
Chakra Asana (The Wheel pose). This year, it's the utterly undemanding
savanasa and
bal asana (corpse and child poses) that are being flexed.
The calculation is that the PM may be too short on time for the yoga session listed for November 26 at 6 am.
"I do
savasana best," joked a top officer referring to the pose that requires nothing more than lying on one's back with arms and legs spread out. Another senior police officer, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that yoga sessions should relax participants, not stress them out by worrying whether they are flexible or fit enough for a class with the PM. "Breathing exercises like
Anulom Vilom or
Kapalbhati should be done in meets like this," he said plaintively.