Delhi BJP ropes in prominent people for their Clean India Campaign

“This isn’t an easy task, but I am fully confident that with the support of people of India, we will make it possible till October 2, 2019. Mahatma Gandhi had also said that sanitation is more important than political freedom and that was his slogan, so we should keep our house, neighbourhood, shop clean and it is our duty. If we succeed, this will then be the ultimate tribute to him.”

During the programme, Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay introduced nine prominent persons of Delhi – Olympian Sushil Kumar, DU VC Dinesh Singh, Padmashree Dr KK Agarwal, former AAP leader Shazia Illmi, Katthak artiste and Padma Bhushan Uma Sharma, DCM Group MD Vinay Bharat Ram, Indian Islamic Centre’s president Sirazuddin Qureshi, CAIT’s general secretary Praveen Khandelwal, DUSU’s president Mohit Nagar.

Naidu also said that government will be constructing crores of toilets across the country.

“We want to adopt a three-pronged approach with regard to this campaign – awareness among people, creation of infrastructure, toilets and sanitation facilities involving private sectors in a big way. People will have to participate in this campaign in large numbers”.

“This campaign should not be connected to politics. I hope all political parties will also join this programme because this is not a programme of one political party,” the Minister said.

He said that these prominent leaders should also invite nine other persons to join “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan”.

Without naming the AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, Naidu said that “some person is telling people to send him photos of filth and dirt…it is good, but some pictures of good work should also be highlighted by the media”.

“Delhi is the Dil of India..We have to make it clean. I also appeal to media to publish positive reports of this campaign and also publish negative reports of dirt and filth following which it will pressurise officials, leaders to do their duties with honesty,” he added.

Apart from introducing nine persons, Upadhyay also said that he has nominated some other persons, who have assured full cooperation in this campaign.

Singer Shivani Kashyap, Harjinder Kaur FICCI (lady wing) and Jitender Tyagi, president of several RWAs are among those.

Speaking on this occassion, Shazia Ilmi said, “Cleaning is not just the duty of sanitation workers..it is also our responsibility to clean our country, states and streets. The time has come to create people’s movement in this regard,’ Shazia Illmi said.

Wrestler Sushil Kumar said that we go to other countries for playing games where we get to see good sanitation system..there is also such system in our country as well.

Singer Shivani Kashyap also sang a song prepared on Delhi’s campaign – “Aao 9 ko milayen..apni Delhi ko Swachh banaye..yahi hai sachh sachh…banaye swachh swachh.”