24 May :- Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli has accepted the fitness challenge given by Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. Kohli, while accepting this challenge, has challenged Kohli by mentioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Anushka Sharma.
Sports Minister Rathore had uploaded one of his own videos on social media while exercising to increase awareness about fitness. When uploading this video, he had asked some prominent persons from the sports and film sectors to call him and invite them to participate in this campaign. It included Virat Kohli.
He has shared this video of his own exercise by completing this Challenge. Besides, he said, “I have accepted the fitness challenge of Rajyavardhan Rathore Sar, and now I have challenged my wife Anushka Sharma, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.”
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 pic.twitter.com/e9BAToE6bg
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) May 23, 2018
Rathore, who was silver medalist at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and a colonel in the army, had written to Kohli, Olympic badminton medalist Saina Nehwal and Hrithik Roshan.