New Delhi, January 19, 2015: Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev today met Minister of Urban Development M.Venkaiah Naidu and assured of his whole hearted support to the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ launched by Prime Minister Naredra Modi.
Terming the Cleanliness Mission as ‘a very noble initiative by the Government’, Ramadev said that ‘purity of mind and soul are closely linked to a clean environment’ and ensuring total sanitation is a sure way of promoting clean minds. He assured the Minister that he would promote awareness about the need for total sanitation as a part of all his campaigns across the country.
Baba Ramdev also appreciated the Government’s efforts to associates icons from different walks of public life with Swachh Bharat Mission to motivate people. He expressed happiness over the United Nations Organisation declaring June 21 as the ‘International Day of Yoga’ at the behest of the Prime Minister.
Venkaiah Naidu thanked Ramdev for coming forward to support the Cleanliness initiative across the country with the objective of achieving total sanitation by October 2, 2019.