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PM Modi nominates new Clean India nominees

| | Dec 25, 2014, at 07:18 pm
Varanasi, Dec 25 (IBNS) In keeping with his cleanliness drive across India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday nominated more celebrities and organisations of repute to take forward the Swaach Bharat (Clean India) campaign.

In his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, where the PM is spending the day and observing Good Governance Day on the 90th birthday of new Bharat Ratna and former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he nominated supercop turned social activist Kiran Bedi, cricketer and former India captain Sourav Ganguly, dancer Sonal Mansingh, actor-comedy show host Kapil Sharma, Nagaland Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya among others.

Visiting Assi Ghat of Varanasi and appreciating the cleanliness there as promised, he also chose journalist-media entrepreneur Arun Poori and his India Today Group and media entrepreneur and film producer Ramoji Rao and his Eenadu Group. He also chose Network 18 media house.

He chose the famed Mumbai Dabbawalla as well as the Indian Institute of Chartered Accountants too for taking the drive.

Modi paid floral tribute at Madan Mohan Malaviya's statue at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) too as the educationist-freedom fighter was posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna.

Modi greeted Indians on the occasion of Christmas too.

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