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| ‘Swachh Bharat
Abhiyan’ ‘Tamasha’? |
Kurukshetra, October, 1, 2014: cleanliness and sanitation is very essential for any society for good living and there is no harm in starting a ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ by the union government. However, politicisation of everything is bad. It is not for the first time that such a campaign is started by the government, but earlier also such programmes were taken into hand by the governments at the time of the birth and death anniversaries of Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi (not Mohan Lal Gandhi as pronounced by our dear PM N. Modi at Medison US). This is evident from the attached news in Tribune dated January 31, 1998, which is self-explaining. In the right photograph I am seen on the right side of then Haryana Chief Minister Sh. Bansi Lal starting a cleanliness campaign at Shahbad near Kurukshetra.
It is sad and painful that there is a race amongst the Union Ministers of BJP in getting themselves photographed and get it published in newspapers and electronic media to express their support the campaign. Worst are the reports that some garbage is spread at the place selected for photography before the minister could perform this ‘great act’ for the visuals. Campaign would succeed only when students from childhood and others are taught about the importance of cleanliness for their own life.
