<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi symbolically wielded the broom Thursday to launch a nationwide campaign that aims to clean up India in five years.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Modi chose the Valmiki Colony in the heart of Delhi -- a place once home to Mahatma Gandhi -- to do the sweeping in a small area for just about one minute.<br /><br />Oct 2 marks Gandhi's birth anniversary. He also spent some time in the Valmiki temple there.<br /><br />The prime minister interacted with some residents who work as municipal cleaners before picking up the broom. He then used a dust pan to put the small pile of dirt into the dustbin.<br /><br />Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Meenakshi Lekhi and party's Delhi unit president Satish Upadhyay were with Modi at Valmiki Colony along with some other party colleagues and officials. <br /><br />Modi began the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan from the area to invoke the ideals of Gandhi who stayed there for 214 days - between April 1946 and September 1947.<br /><br />Modi has said the campaign should clean up the country by 2019, the 150th anniversary of Gandhi.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi symbolically wielded the broom Thursday to launch a nationwide campaign that aims to clean up India in five years.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Modi chose the Valmiki Colony in the heart of Delhi -- a place once home to Mahatma Gandhi -- to do the sweeping in a small area for just about one minute.<br /><br />Oct 2 marks Gandhi's birth anniversary. He also spent some time in the Valmiki temple there.<br /><br />The prime minister interacted with some residents who work as municipal cleaners before picking up the broom. He then used a dust pan to put the small pile of dirt into the dustbin.<br /><br />Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Meenakshi Lekhi and party's Delhi unit president Satish Upadhyay were with Modi at Valmiki Colony along with some other party colleagues and officials. <br /><br />Modi began the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan from the area to invoke the ideals of Gandhi who stayed there for 214 days - between April 1946 and September 1947.<br /><br />Modi has said the campaign should clean up the country by 2019, the 150th anniversary of Gandhi.</p>