Yoga can cut rapes in India, feels BJP veteran

Yoga can cure people of acts like rapes, sadism, violence and hence Yoga Education is a must for Army, Police,Government employees, students, working women and who not.

In what could spark off another controversy as a Hindu fundamentalist view, the Veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi today said that Muslims do yoga five times in a day and termed "Prophet Mohammad as the greatest yogi".

If yoga comes into the life of common people,it will help in bringing down incidents of rape in the country. "I believe if yoga comes into the life of common people, then the daily incidents of rape, I would not say, they will cease to exist, but there will definitely be a decrease in them," said Joshi while speaking at a seminar titled 'The Iyengar Way - Yoga for the New Millennium'.

"Our Muslim brothers do yoga five times in a day. The postures of 'namaz'...in that two or three postures, even you will be able to tell (which ones they are)," he said adding that Mohammad sahab was a great yogi.

Referring to the government's focus on skill development, Joshi said that Yoga education should become part of the curriculum to enhance basic skills of tolerance, patience and determination in enhancing each individual’s talents.

He also suggested Yoga education for all the top guns of Army, Police and also others."My suggestion is that our country's Army and police should be given yoga education and practice. If policemen start doing yoga, they could interact with people and also criminals better and make them good citizens," he opined.