Indian members of parliament including Minister of State (Finance) Anurag Thakur and Hema Malini were spotted sweeping the streets around the parliament on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's launched a campaign namely the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' at Rajghat, New Delhi in 2014.
According to 'FreePress Journal', this campaign is India's largest cleanliness drive to date with three million government employees and students from all parts of India participating in 4,043 cities, towns, and rural areas.
Modi has called the campaign Satyagrah se Swachhagrah in reference to Gandhi's Champaran Satyagraha launched on April 10, 1917.
The mission aims to clean up the streets, roads, and infrastructure of India's cities, towns, and rural areas. The objectives of Swachh Bharat include eliminating open defecation through the construction of household-owned and community-owned toilets and establishing an accountable mechanism of monitoring toilet use.
Under the campaign, the BJP MPs are to take part by sweeping the streets.
A video shared by the news agency ANI, showed several major BJP leaders joined the cleaning campaign.
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