Yoga a Sport or Political 'Posturing' by the Government?

This week, the sports ministry included yoga in its list of Priority sports, resulting in the ancient Indian discipline getting a share of government's annual sports budget towards promotion and development. But is yoga even a sport? And even if it can be classified as one, does it deserve the "priority" status? especially, when a few other notable sports have been kept out of the priority list by the sports ministry for many years now.