BJP on Monday announced that the party will observe ‘Yoga Day’ at over 75,000 places across the country  on Tuesday, saying  the country is leaving its  strong imprints on the global culture as it lashed–out at Congress for  “hateful comments” against the Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be leading the mega-yoga-event at  Mysuru in Karnataka where over 15,000 people are expected to do Yoga  exercises along with him. BJP president JP Nadda would  be at Noida for the  ‘Yoga day’ functions, and union home Minister Amit Shah will be in the National Capital.

Addressing a press conference here , BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi  said India is the only country which has spread its cultural influence globally saying in the past even  explorer Columbus ushered into his sea-voyage to discover India but landed in America where the original Indians are called ‘red-Indians.’

 ‘Yoga’ is an extension of Indian cultural foot-prints across the globe, he said, informing that BJP would observe the ‘Yoga-day’  in 75,000 places in the country.

Trivedi also said that all Union Ministers, BJP Chief Ministers, MPs, MLAs, party members, and functionaries  would participate in the Yoga events  across the country..

While saying that under Prime Minister’s leadership, ‘Yoga’  has been accepted and whole-heartedly supported  by  most of the countries, Trivedi  slammed Congress for its ‘hateful’ comments against the Prime Minister over the years  and sought to know if it has expelled or taken any disciplinary action against anyone. There are more than 80 such instances, he said. The BJP spokesperson took on the Congress  after Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Subodh Kant Sahai alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is behaving like Adolf Hitler and "will die like Hitler" if he follows the path of the German dictator. The Congress, however, distanced itself from the statement made at the party's 'Satyagraha' protest at Jantar Mantar here against the Centre's Agnipath scheme, saying it does not endorse any indecent remarks against the Prime Minister.