International Yoga Day: Bend it like HD Deve Gowda

The whole episode received wide attention; former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah gave away wishes of the day by tweeting a photograph; not his own, but that of Gowda's performance

One political leader who swept social media on International Yoga Day was not Prime Minister Narendra Modi who popularised it, but a former PM whose party managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in the Karnataka assembly polls last month: the 86-year-old 

H D Deve Gowda. While many union ministers and chief ministers tweeted their pictures performing pranayaam and other asanas, media crew in large numbers reached Gowda's residence in Bengaluru to capture him performing an asana lying on his bed. The whole episode received wide attention; former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah gave away wishes of the day