New Delhi: After Churchgate in downtown Mumbai, industrialist Anil Ambani yesterday took the ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign to Badrinath and Kedarnath in Uttarakhand, and appealed to the people to particularly keep India’s temple towns clean.
Ambani, who was among the nine people invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join the clean India campaign and also praised for such efforts, said there were two reasons that he was visiting the two holy towns.
“The first reason is to take the blessings of Badrinathji and Kedarnathji. The second reason that I would like to share with you is: We do not keep our temples and places around it as clean as they should be,” Ambani said.
“So let’s all take this responsibility from today and keep our religious places clean.”
Anil, who cleaned the area around Churchgate station in downtown Mumbai last week along with his friends,” further said: “In the name of Badrinathji and Kedarnathji, let’s make each and every temple, place of worship clean to accomplish the Swachh Bharat Mission.”
Modi had lauded Ambani’s effort last week and said he had also invited actors Amitabh Bachchan, Hritik Roshan and Nagarjuna, sportspersons Mary Kom and Sania Mirza, writers Shobha De and Prasoon Joshi, and journalist Shekhar Gupta to join the campaign.
“Wonderful effort by Shri Anil Ambani, who cleaned the area around Churchgate station in Mumbai along with his friends,” Modi had tweeted.
IANS
