Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday also participated in the Swachh Bharat mission launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.
"Today on Gandhi Jayanti the Prime Minister had asked the nation to come together and do the 'Swachhta Abhiyan'. The idea is that it may be an act of individual where BJP workers, ministers, MPs, MLAs, they have all come together to symbolically tell the nation that we need to keep the nations clean and that is an action which will bring us together and cultivate in us that we have to keep our cities, towns, villages clean," Rudy said.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar also said, "The cleanliness drive will continue for five years and it will improve common man's habit. It will change the nation's mentality and will help in its progress. The ministry is taking all possible steps to take the drive forward."
Javadekar also added that Prime Minister Modi's Clean India movement would be as successful as Mahatma Gandhi's Quit India Movement.
He further informed that the Prime Minister will be talking on radio on Dussehra through which he will be able to reach the common, so all the radio stations like Akashvani, FM Gold, all the private radio channels and all the radio channels of the DTH will be broadcasting his 18 minutes speech on that day.
The 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan', launched on the 145th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi by Prime Minster Narendra Modi, saw a litany of BJP leaders including Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Shatrughan Sinha and Ravi Shankar Prasad and Shivraj Singh Chouhan wielding brooms and promoting cleanliness.
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The campaign that has been launched nationwide focuses on sanitation, hygiene and waste management.
It includes sweeping, removal of garbage, debris and unauthorised encroachments from roads, markets and residential places and aims at making India a clean country by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.