2nd October: Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibbal praises PM Narendra Modi’s flagship program ‘Swachh Bharat’; says ‘it’s exceptional’

At the time of political bitterness between the Congress and the ruling party BJP, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibbal cut across the party line and praised his party’s prime rival Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship program.

He said that the concept of Swachh Bharat is exceptional and no body, up till now, has brought up to this level except the Narendra Modi government.

In an interview with Shouma Choudhry at Algebra event, Sibbal, who was Human Resouce Development Minister during Manmohan Singh government, said “I would say that the concept of Swachh Bharat as a concept it is exceptional. I think nobody has brought it up to that level. I think that’s a positive point as far as that is concerned”.

Apart from Clean India Movement, he also lauded the attempt of Modi government to digitalize the country, he said “The second positive point I would say is the attempt to connect India through digitalization. That’s an attempt how far they have succeeded is another issue. I think that’s the future ultimately that lie once set up fiber optic network. That’s no.2. I really can’t think of third”.

The Movement was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Rajghat on 2 October 2014 with the slogan of ‘One step towards cleanliness’.

Apart from these issues, he talked in the interviews on several issues and criticized the Modi government and its various policies and action like religious polarization, reneging on the promises made by PM Modi.

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