Ayush Ministry Promotes Yoga for Unity Under Yoga 365

The Ministry of Ayush carried the message of Yoga for Unity on National Unity Day 2026, the day that marks the 151st birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The ministry held up yoga as a practice that aids national integration, social harmony and the well-being of people together.

Tied to Yoga 365

The drive has been folded into Yoga 365, the ministry's initiative for yoga every day of the year. The aim is to get citizens to make yoga a fixed part of daily life and, with it, to strengthen a sense of togetherness and of shared responsibility for health. Yoga and Naturopathy institutions of the ministry across the country are being asked to hold activities that take the message into communities and draw wider public participation. Collective yoga sessions are part of the plan, linking the idea of national unity with preventive healthcare and healthy living.

What the ministry said

Prataprao Jadhav, Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Ayush and Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel united the nation by his vision and his firmness, and that his message of unity should be carried forward on this day through collective action. Yoga, he said, brings people together across age, region and background and improves both bodily and mental well-being, and through Yoga for Unity and Yoga 365 every citizen is urged to take up yoga as a daily habit.

Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary in the Ministry of Ayush, said yoga is a simple and reachable way of bettering physical and mental health while building a feeling of connection among people and communities. The Yoga 365 initiative, he said, asks people to practise through the year so that preventive healthcare becomes part of ordinary life.

The larger point

The campaign stresses that yoga need not be tied to a single day or occasion and can be followed as a lasting daily practice that helps the individual and strengthens community bonds. By taking it beyond commemorative days, the ministry wants public engagement with yoga to continue all year, and it has placed this effort within the spirit of national integration that Sardar Patel stood for.