Patna, Jun 30: A picture of senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh urinating in public has gone viral on social media, with trolls mocking the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid much fanfare.
Mr Singh is a fourth-term MP from Motihari in the East Champaran district of Bihar. In the picture, he is seen urinating in public on the wall of a building even as his security guards and others are present around. The time, date and location where the picture was taken is not yet clear.
As part of Swachh Bharat mission, the union government aims to make India an open defecation free country in a few years. The government also claims that thousands of villages across the country have already become open defecation free since Modi government came to power in 2014.
However, this viral pic of the Union minister shows that making India a ‘swachh’ (clean) country is not an easy task and the leaders need to lead from the front. If this viral pic is authentic, Radha Mohan Singh has certainly mocked PM Modi’s cleanliness mission.
AAP leader and Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia retweeted the viral pic and asked if any media house would hold a debate on this on TV.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) tweeted: Kadi suraksha ke beech kendriya krishi mantri sookha prabhavit kshetr mein sinchai yojna ki shuruwat karte hue. Unhone Swacch Bharat Abhiyan ko bhi gati di (‘amid tight security, Union Agriculture Minister kicking off irrigation programme in a drought affected area…he also speeded up the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan).
This was later re-tweeted by party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav. His younger son and Bihar’s Deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav also posted the controversial picture, asking people to “search [for the] red beacon in the photo”.
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