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Citizens of Bhopal will be unable to forgive Pragya Thakur. The BJP MP will do well to watch this video:
The people who are sweeping the floor outside the Parliament are MPs too, just like Pragya Thakur. Although they were not elected to mop and clean the floor, the effort is worth appreciating, especially taking into account its engagement with PM Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.’
While the PM is busy promoting the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, you, Pragya Thakur, are saying that cleaning drains and toilets is not your job.
In the Swachhta rankings, Bhopal had been ranked second for the last two years. This year, it toppled down to 19, although it still remains the cleanest capital city in India.
You are Bhopal’s MP. Be cautioned that the ‘Cleanest Capital’ title might slip away from your hands.
What is wrong with people complaining about cleanliness to their MPs? Did you, before the elections, enumerate the issues you could be approached for? And if you didn’t, why take this route after you have won?
You said that you haven’t been elected to clean. We ask you what tasks you perform in earnest. Have you been elected to glorify Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse or to insult Karkare’s sacrifice?
Or, have you been elected to make controversial statements and subsequently apologise for them?
Watch the video for more.
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