RAIPUR: Launching campaign of 'red alert' against rising pollution in the state capital, the district Congress staged a symbolic protest by performing yoga wearing masks and appealing to the BJP government and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat not to promote yoga as the air in city isn't healthy enough to breathe.District Congress president Vikas Upadhyay with several others was seen chanting 'Om' and practising yoga by wearing masks on Monday morning in state capital and displaying posters of pollution reaching dangerous levels in Raipur city.In his unique style of registering protest, Upadhyay said that industries and environment minister Rajesh Munat hasn't paid heed to pollution in Raipur which has been ranked among top seven cities in the world by World Health Organization "Munat is minister for public works department, environment and industries-all the departments complement each other for controlling and increasing pollution. But in the last fourteen years of BJP government, the levels of polluted air has only increased and left people coughing. Hence, we have protested by doing yoga and wearing mask to send out a message about how dangerous it is to breathe in city," Upadhyay said.On RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's visit to Raipur, Upadhyay said that BJP and Bhagwat have been saying 'Yog kare swastha rahein' (Do yoga and be healthy). "I would like to convey this message to RSS chief that he shouldn't do Yoga in Raipur else he too would suffer from lung disease as the air is too polluted to perform yoga here, else wear a mask."Earlier, as part of 'red alert' campaign district Congress members had distributed masks to people participating in 'Sehatmandi' programme of municipal corporation.

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