Rubbishing former finance minister P Chidambaram's statement that the 'Swachh Bharat Abiyan' launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a UPA scheme called 'Nirmal Bharat Abiyan', Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sambit Patra on Friday dubbed the former's statement as 'ridiculous'.
"When your intentions were 'Aswacch' how could you be the generator of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. If P. Chidambaram is saying that they were the generators of such kind of 'Abhiyan' in India then I would say that this is ridiculous," BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra told ANI.
"Only recently have the people of this country shown the mirror to the Congress. Prime Minister Narendra Modi in all his generosity and humility has said yesterday that this issue is the issue of the nation and therefore should not be politicized. I am pained that Congress has not taken any lessons from it and is trying to politicize a drive which is for the whole nation," he added.
Chidambaram had on Thursday said that BJP's Skill India scheme is same as the Congress' Skill Development Mission, Congress' financial inclusion is now BJP's Jan Dhan and that Swachh Bharat Abiyan' is nothing but UPA's 'Nirmal Bharat Abiyan.
