Herald of yoga day 2019 happened from the sacred land of Maharashtra

Besides being recognised as the land of braves Nanded is also recognised as the land of Saint Gyaneshwar , Saint Gajanan, Gadge Baba, Saint Ramdas and it is also recognised as the city of pilgrims and hub of education. District of Nanded is situated in Marathwada region of Maharashtra which is also a centre of pilgrimages of Sikhs. This is the land where 10th guru Guru Gobind Singh Ji had put his foot steps to make this land a sacred land. Madho Das Ji who did penance on the bank of Godavari river was made a disciple by Guruji and was named Baba Banda Singh Bahadur and Guruji Saint him to fight foreign aggressors. This is the land which takes for what the tradition of Guru and his disciple besides which also gives inspiration to make great sacrifices on the call of a Guru. 

Similar example was seen during celebration of world yoga day at Nanded where in the leadership of respected Swami Ramdevji Maharaj people practice yoga. 

In its background it is important to inform that the program which was attended by more than 100000 people was held after only 7 days of preparatory work. It is to be noted that great Chief Minister of Maharashtra Mr Devendra Fadnavis invited respected yoga Rishi Swami Ramdev Ji Maharaj to organise International yoga day on June 21 2019 after which soon Mr Jaideep Arya held special meeting with the chief minister and also the local MP of Nanded and popular leader Mr prataprao Patil chikhalikar and district magistrate Mr Arun Dongre were assigned with the responsibility to make this program a grand success. The entire district administration in the guidance of district magistrate Mr Dongre, CEO of district Council Mr Ashok Kakade and SSP Mr Sanjay Jadhav tahsildar Mr Kiran Ambedkar besides the official of Education Department sports department PWD and transport department worked alot. 
Besides Gurudwara Sachkhand Hazoor Sahib activists of Patanjali is Maharashtra unit Educational Institutes of Nanded district activists of religious organisations social institutes and volunteers workday day in and day out to make the program a grand success. To inspire everyone present their Dr Jaideep Arya sang a song “we are left with very little time and our destination is far away you have to move fast you have to move fast.”

Given the big size of the event Dr Jaideep Arya requested honorable member of parliament to allocate the biggest ground of the city for this purpose which was located at assurgen village naihar ke shivratna Jiwaji Mahale mama Chowk in Nanded. The area of this ground is is 31.7 44 acre which is around 12 lakh square feet and this ground was named Yogbhoomi. Since the ground had black soil dares for to prevent the chances of mud in the ground on the day of program 20 JCB and 10 Road rollers were used to fill the ground with stone soil and this whether ground was prepared in just 6 days. 

BJP member of parliament Pratap Rao chikhalikar and his team along with Dr Jaideep Arya and the teams of state held daily meetings and the incharge of Central youth India mesha Sachin and among state incharge included Swami Anand Dev, sister Sudha, brother Vishnu, brother Shankar, brother Bapu Padalkar, Mr. Shri Ram, Mrs. Shobha Bhagya, Sanjivani Tai, Gyaneshwar ji besides yoga propagators sage brothers and sisters from Haridwar formed a team and they completed their responsibilities in the best possible way. Team members like brother Akhil Khan ji, Anil ji, Bahan Urmila ji, Bahan Sharda ji, Sitaram ji, Kale ji, Dage ji also contributed in this mission. Mr. Ashish Choudhary and Mr. Mahesh Kahar took up responsibility of social media while Mr. Vinod Mishra karampal, Mr. Rinku from Haridwar, Mr. Komal, Mr. Koyagade, Mr. Shri Ram Dhan, Mr. Pardeshi and their teams took up the responsibility of the office, management of alms and traffic management. More than 100 workers who came from East and West Of Maharashtra and remote areas of Mumbai they took up the responsibilities of Water Department and promotion. 

There was an arrangement of lodging and food for or around 300 workers at Sachkhand Hazoor Sahib Gurudwara for 10 days . Mr Bhupendra Minhas president of Gurudwara Prabandhak committee donated some amount from the alms collected by him to arrange for refreshment for the students and villages and to collect alms Mr Govardhan other Pal of Patanjali Mrs Jyoti Tai Doiphade, Nandini Tai sister Chanda and sister Sanap made special contributions. 

By the means of a Roadshow the people of Nanded organized welcome respected Swamiji in which more than 2000 motorcycles more than 500 four wheelers participated. Member of Parliament minister prataprao chikhalikar and Swami Ji were together in an open car. Sister Dev Priya of Patanjali women’s unit and other sisters were present in in an open jeep and Dr. Jaideep Arya, Dr. Shinde Sardar, Amrik Singh, Pandharpur were in the front of the procession playing musical instruments. 

Arrival of respected Swami Ji made all the workers free from the burden in which they had and there stress also got vanished. Next morning on June 21 at 4:30 a.m. the entire ground was crowded with people and people from various roads of Nanded City were converging at the ground. There were around 25000 to 30000 motorcycles on the roads and hundreds of devotees were coming there in buses. It was very difficult to travel on this four lane road. All the workers were delighted and the presence of more than one lakh people broke the record of where people gathered last year. This buy a new record was mentioned in Golden Book of World Record for which Nanded district Administration and Patanjali Yogpeeth sexy jawab to get credit for it. 

Those who made contribution in the great success of the event included Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis besides Nanded MP prataprao chikhalikar, Nanded DM Mr. Arun Dongre, District Council members of Nanded- Pranita Devre Chikhalikar and Chief Central In-charge- Dr. Jaideep Arya.