The fitness challenge - #HumFitTohIndiaFit - was initiated by an Olympic medalist and Information and Broadcasting Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. Rathore posted a video doing push-ups and urged people to shoot a video of their fitness secret and share it in social media. He urged Virat Kohli, badminton champion Saina Nehwal and actor Hrithik Roshan to take up the challenge #HumFitTohIndiaHit.
Virat Kohli posted a video on Wednesday doing 20 spider planks and carrying on the challenge by tagging three others. “I have accepted the #FitnessChallenge by @ra_THORe sir. Now I would like to challenge my wife @AnushkaSharma , our PM @narendramodi ji and @msdhoni Bhai for the same. #HumFitTohIndiaFit #ComeOutAndPlay,” tweeted Virat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning tweeted his response to Virat Kohli's fitness challenge. "Challenge accepted," he wrote in reply to Indian cricket team captain, promising to share his own fitness video soon.
Modi is known for his love for yoga and his government has, in the past four years, pulled out all the stops to celebrate International Yoga Day on June 21.