Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that Yoga originated in Nepal, not India. He said that India did not exist at that time as there were only princely states. While the 7th International Yoga Day is being celebrated across the world, Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli claimed that yoga originated in his country and not in India. "Yoga was and continues to be practised in Nepal long before the existence of India as a nation," Oli said in his address on International Day of Yoga.
Oli said, 'Yoga did not originate in India. India was not formed when Yoga was discovered. There was no country like India because Nepal had many frontier states at the time of yoga's practice. So yoga originated around Nepal or Uttarakhand.'
He said that we never gave credit to our sages who discovered yoga. We always talked about this or that professor and his contribution. We could not defend our claim properly. We couldn't take it around the world. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it famous by proposing to celebrate International Yoga Day on the longest day of the year. Then it got international recognition.
Oli had sparked controversy sometime back by saying that Lord Rama was born in the Madi region known as Ayodhyapuri in the Chitwan district of Nepal, not in Ayodhya, India. He ordered the construction of huge temples of Lord Rama, Sita, Lakshmana and others there. He said, 'Ayodhyapuri was in Nepal. Valmiki Ashram was also in Nepal near Ayodhyapuri. Sita died at Devghat, which is close to Ayodhyapuri and Valmiki Ashram in Nepal.
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