This Article is From Oct 02, 2014

Positive Responses Pour in for PM Modi's Clean India Invitation

Positive Responses Pour in for PM Modi's Clean India Invitation

PM Narendra Modi had invited nine leading people to join the Clean India movement.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's invitation to nine leading people to join the Clean India movement has so far received five positive responses - actors Priyanka Chopra and Salman Khan, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, former Union minister Shashi Tharoor and industrialist Anil Ambani.

Mr Tendulkar and Ms Chopra responded soon. "I humbly accept the challenge," tweeted the world's most prolific batsman. Ms Chopra was enthusiastic too. "This is an idea that is long overdue," she tweeted.





"I am honoured to be invited by our respected Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi to join the "Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. I dedicate myself to this movement and will invite nine other leading Indians to join me in the "Clean India" campaign," Mr Ambani said in a statement.

Mr Tharoor, who also accepted the "challenge" in the evening from Bucharest, had a word of warning. "I am not a fan of tokenism," he tweeted. "Clean India is a great campaign," but the challenge will be to sustain it beyond a week of photo ops. Mindsets must change."

Apart from the four, the Prime Minister's list included Goa governor Mridula Sinha, yoga teacher Ramdev, actor Kamal Haasan, and Salman Khan, and the team of popular TV serial Tarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma.

Besides joining the cleanliness drive, the Prime Minister had also requested each of them to draw nine more into the initiative and help it go viral.  

The announcement was made this morning when he launched the drive from India Gate.

PM Modi used the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi to start his cleanliness drive and ordered his ministers and bureaucrats to keep their offices clean.

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