Swachh Bharat: Kerala best-performing, BJP-ruled states fail the clean test

Left-ruled Kerala is the best performer in building toilets for the households without those, but a closer look at numbers might tell a different story

The third anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission), launched on a war footing by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, might just come as an embarrassment for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states of the country. These states, two-thirds of all states in India, seem to be faring poorly in implementing the scheme meant to provide a toilet to every Indian household without one.

The worst performers are Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP came to power this year – in