No need for poor to practice yoga: Lalu

June 19, 2015 21:00

M I Khan reports from Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday said that there was no need for the poor to practice yoga. He added that yoga has been practiced by who those have eaten funds of poor and became rich and super rich.

"Poor and poorest of the poor have no need to practice yoga because they have not accumulated fat on their bodies," Lalu said in Patna at a party function.

Lalu claimed that he also did not need to practice yoga.

"Poor people have to be provided adequate food first for their survival. There are 14 crore poor people in the country who are fighting hunger,' he said. He said that the landless farmers, poor labourers, milkmen and rickshaw-pullers do not have potbellies because they work hard.

"What is the need for them to practice yoga?"Lalu said.

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