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Srinagar, June 22, 2023 (PPI-OT): National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has criticised the holding of the International Yoga Day event on the lawns of a revered shrine in Budgam district, calling the programme a “photo-op.” The Indian army had on Wednesday, in collaboration with the administration, organised the yoga session on the lawns of the shrine of Sufi Saint Sheikh Noor-Ud-Din Noorani, popularly known as Sheikh-Ul-Alam and Alamdar-e-Kashmir, at Charar-e-Shareef in the central Kashmir district.
“The burial place of one of our most revered saints is used as a venue for a yoga day photo op!” Abdullah, the vice president of the National Conference (NC), said in a tweet. Srinagar Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu too took exception to the event calling it “absolutely hare-brained.” “An absolutely hare-brained, inconsiderate idea to organise a demonstration at the shrine of Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Noorani, Sheikh-Ul-Alam (RA). “I’m all for Yoga but this is immensely problematic. Places of religious importance should be treated with utmost sensitivity,” Mattu wrote on Twitter.
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