"It is very important to know that more than 190 countries agreed that yoga is important for mankind and out of those 190 countries nearly 44 were Islamic countries. Never ever there has been such massive response on a proposal. You can see that yoga is taking place in New York, China, London also," Prasad, the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Technology, said here.
"Pakistan too had said that it will talk about yoga in their country, but it stopped it all of a sudden. I would request them to rethink as we feel that yoga would help them bring in peace there in their country too.
"Our government wants good relations with Pakistan. They had not done it (yoga) it is their matter, but it would have been better if they had done it," he told reporters later.
Rubbishing claims that yoga represented a particular religion and faith, he said it is not a symbol of any particular faith or any particular path.
Prasad lauded the response to the proposal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his speech at the UN General Assembly last year to declare June 21 as International Yoga Day.
Hundreds of participants, cutting across age groups today took part in International Yoga Day celebrations in the city.