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Tharoor joins Clean India campaign, cleans beach

Tharoor joins Clean India campaign, cleans beach

India Blooms News Service | | 25 Oct 2014, 07:16 pm
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 25 (IBNS) Nominated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday took up the 'Swacch Bharat' (Clean India) challenge as he cleaned the Vizhinjam beach in Kerala.

Tharoor had recently received flak from his own party's Kerala unit for praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Clean India campaign under which he was chosen by the PM to take the idea forward with his own contribution.

The Congress party even removed him as the spokesperson.

Tharoor on Saturday said 'a clean India'  needed no label.

The leader tweeted: "Before my actions today are distorted: a clean India requires no label. Why cede Gandhiji's sanitation drive to any party? A national cause."

"I was joined by local residents of Vizhinjam, the Congress councillor&people's representatives, the President&Secretary of the local Jama'th.The locals are the real stakeholders. It is they who have to live amid squalor. I am donating them a biogas plant of 1tonne per day capacity," he said.

"If @PMOIndia is sincere about #SwachhBharat, I have a project to clean up the Parvathy Puthenaar canal in Tvm which will need 100s of crores," he said.

Speaking about different projects, the leader said, "Pleased to bring various projects to Vizhinjam: lighthouse beautification (2cr), Tourist infra development (9cr), Rajiv Awas Yojana (77cr)."

Kerala Congress president V M Sudheeran had earlier slammed Tharoor by saying that it was Congress which sent him to Parliament and so hence should not go against the party line.
 

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