PM Modi Adopted Cleanliness Movement Started by Mahatma Gandhi: Nadda

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 2nd Oct. As he launched the “Swachhata Abhiyan” of his party’s Delhi branch on Sunday, BJP president J P Nadda stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had adopted the cleanliness movement that Mahatma Gandhi had started.

Nadda, along with Delhi unit president Virendra Sachdeva, Union minister Meenakshi Lekhi, and party national media head Anil Baluni, launched the ‘Swachhata Abhiyan’ at Karol Bagh.

In a recent episode of “Mann Ki Baat,” Modi urged all Indians to participate in “one hour of shramdaan (voluntary labor) for swachhata” on October 1, calling it a “Swachhanjali” to Gandhi on the eve of his birth anniversary.

In response to the prime minister’s request, people from all walks of life, from leaders to students, grabbed up brooms and joined the movement.

Nadda said the cleanliness movement started by Mahatma Gandhi has been adopted by Prime Minister Modi.

“In order to strengthen this cleanliness movement, not only is it important to hold cleanliness programmes but we should also desist from littering streets and open spaces,” he said.

Speaking on the occasion, Sachdeva said Delhi BJP leaders and workers took part in the ‘Swachhata Abhiyan’ in all municipal wards in the city.

“We will not take it as a one-day affair but regularly carry out sanitation drives across the city with the help of our councillors, party workers and RWAs,” he said.

Union minister Arjun Munda, BJP vice president Baijayant Panda, and national general secretaries Vinod Tawde and Radha Mohan Das were among the party officials who participated in cleanliness drives throughout Delhi.