India, Aug. 29 -- Asserting that the newly launched 'Fit India' is not a campaign but a movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged the masses must follow it in order to make the country fit and healthy.

Addressing a gathering at Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex during the launch of 'Fit India Movement', the Prime Minister said, "This is an important step towards making India fit and healthy. The event has been presented so well that I feel my speech is not even needed. The conceptualisation of the event was brilliant. This must become a mass movement. Videos from the event must be shown to students across India."

Remembering the "magician of hockey", Major Dhyan Chand, on his 115th birth anniversary, Modi said, "Many congratula...