Narendra Modi broom for a cleaner India

Bengaluru: Calling on Bengalureans to join the Clean India campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that he will lead the campaign by hitting the road with broomstick on October 2. Addressing BJP workers and leaders at HAL airport after being felicitated of the state BJP here on Tuesday, Mr. Modi requested party workers to join him to clean India. "I have decided to beg you (public) to give me a 100 days in a year and two-hours in a week  to clean India. Let us take one step for cleanliness to make India free from garbage", he said.

"Some people have wondered about the Prime Minister speaking about ordinary things, I am a ordinary man, that's why I am talking about ordinary people and ordinary issues", Mr. Modi justified. "While sitting at home, we talk about other countries and how clean they are but we do not practice it at home. If we make our premises clean, Bengaluru, Karnataka and India will become free from garbage. Once we make our premises free from garbage, even foreigners cannot make it dirty. Let us decide we will not do anything dirty and will  not let others to do it. Let all of us make mother India free from garbage", Mr Modi said.

The Prime Minister has said that after entering his new home at Delhi, he has started to ‘clean up’ his house "because the previous government had forced him to do this. You (people) have cleaned up the previous government's dirt to some extent by defeating them in the elections", he said referring to the Congress-led UPA government’s defeat in the Lok Sbaha polls. The PM said he has constituted a committee to repeal unwanted legislations. "Laws are becoming a hurdle to development. Some laws are irrelevant. We have decided to repeal some unwanted laws", Mr Modi said.

He also spoke of the Prime Minister’s Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), and said nearly 4 crore families have opened their accounts with the deposit amount which totals Rs 1500 crore.