New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan' has come under the scanner, this time not by his political opponents but by the voters in some constituencies of Delhi. With voters getting more vocal about their issues, they now want a clean Delhi.
"Narendra Modi ne kahan jhaadu lagai hai. Yahan toh farak nai pada. (Where did Modi clean roads? No difference can be seen here)," says Shobha Sharma, a businesswoman in Chandni Chowk.
The main market of Chandni Chowk has been dug up and garbage is seen lying on every nook and corner of the market. The condition is such that one finds it difficult even to walk as footpaths have now become roads for two-wheelers.
The condition is similar in Ballimaran and Sadar Bazar as well where people are also demanding a clean Delhi.
"Cleanliness, electricity and unemployment are the major issues here," says Hasmirat Kaur, a resident from Ballimaran.
Modi launched his cleanliness drive on October 2 by wielding a broom and sweeping the pavement in Valmiki Basti, a colony of sanitation workers in the area. The event had political connotation as well as broom is the symbol of Aam Aadmi Party and Valmiki Basti is the place where Arvind Kejriwal launched his party AAP's symbol.
Since then, Modi has been nominating celebrities across the field to carry forward his abhiyaan. In December 2014, he visited his constituency Varanasi to carry forward his cleanliness drive.
But several areas of the national capital still remain very dirty with heaps of garbage lying around.
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