Last year, the Prime Minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli, had claimed that Ayodhya, which is believed to be Lord Ram’s birthplace, is actually a “small village” near Kathmandu. His statement received a lot of backlash from Indians.
A year later, the Nepal Prime Minister made another controversial claim. According to NDTV, KP Sharma Oli said that yoga originated in Nepal, not in India, and that India didn’t exist at the time when yoga started in the world.
“Much before the existence of India as a nation, yoga was practised in Nepal. When yoga was discovered, India had not been constituted. There was no country like India then; there were just several fringe states. So, yoga originated in Nepal or around Uttarakhand. Yoga did not originate in India, he said.
India Today quoted him adding,
“We never gave credit to our sages who discovered yoga. We could not put our claim (on yoga) rightly. We could not take it across the globe.”
His statement sparked a huge debate online. While there were many who argued against his claim, some responded with funny memes! Have a look:
Nepal originated from India.
— Anonymous.🇮🇳 (@anonymous_hun99) June 21, 2021
https://t.co/L379EF091l pic.twitter.com/erABmEZX1o
— DJ Swaminarayan (@prashantpvm) June 22, 2021
Indus civilization is also belongs to nepal 😂 https://t.co/oDtvBqyYPo pic.twitter.com/pjUG0mnh4b
— JPB (@jayaPrasadBisw1) June 21, 2021
Here’s a new claim all together !! may be Nepal was a part of India many many years ago but the world all over acquired yoga from India.
— Prabodh Kumar (@PrabodhKumar_P) June 22, 2021
KP Oli then – Lord Ram was born in Nepal.
KP Oli now- Yoga was originated in #Nepal
Indians right now : pic.twitter.com/sQpE3bmQYY
— pushpsing Patil🌸 (@Patil_pushpsing) June 22, 2021
KP Sharma Oli :- Yoga originated in Nepal, adding that India wasn`t around when Yoga started in the world.
I'm like :- pic.twitter.com/QsZ2Fnh2k2
— ☸ Esh (@deveshpantdp) June 21, 2021
#Nepal PM Oli ji says Yoga originated in Nepal. I cannot deny/accept this as it is part of our shared civilisational heritage & belongs to each South Asian country. I do have distaste for Oli Ji’s frequent run in’s w India 2 score political brownie point for his home constituency
— Nitesh R Pradhan (@NiteshRPradhan) June 22, 2021
not only Yoga, whole universe has originated from Nepal 🤷♂ pic.twitter.com/6o58iX63ui
— Vedant Baranwal (@awokebhakt) June 21, 2021
When Yoga started there was no nepal. It was BharatVarsha and Nepal was part of It.
— Lokayat (@Lokayat3) June 21, 2021
First Bitcoin was mined in Nepal.
— Asish (@ksnehasish) June 21, 2021
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