Patna,(BiharTimes): Teasing the Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said that considering his health he should first practice Yoga in privacy at home rather than rake up controversy.

“I have learnt from newspapers that Amit Shah was about to do yoga in Patna on Yoga Divas. I suggest Shah to do it in the privacy of his home to keep better health,” Nitish told mediapersons on Saturday.

He said yoga is not an exercise to show off. Yoga calls for a voluntary exercise for self-discipline. But the BJP has created drama in the name of yoga, creating unnecessary controversy around the 6000-year-old Indian practice aimed at purification for mind, body and soul.

Stating that he himself has been practising yoga for many years Nitish said that Bihar has a yoga school of international repute, Bihar School of Yoga, in Munger. But the Narendra Modi government has not incorporated it in its scheme of things for the International Yoga Day on June 21. It amounts to disrespect to Bihar, he added.