New broom Modi says clean up India

Prime Minister leads by example as he calls on nation to join his campaign

India's prime minister joined millions of schoolchildren, officials and members of the public who picked up brooms and dustpans on Thursday in a countrywide campaign to clean parks, public buildings and streets.

Narendra Modi swept the road in a poor neighborhood in New Delhi while launching the Clean India Campaign. Elsewhere in state capitals and small towns, lawmakers, school principals, factory workers and millions of people swept and cleared garbage and cleaned ditches and parks.