{"id":85833,"date":"2019-02-24T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85833"},"modified":"2019-02-24T17:37:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:37:13","slug":"modi-washes-the-feet-of-sanitary-workers-at-the-kumbh-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/24\/modi-washes-the-feet-of-sanitary-workers-at-the-kumbh-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi washes the feet of sanitary workers at the Kumbh mela"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Allahabad, February 24 (News 18): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday performed Ganga Arti and washed the feet of sanitation workers during his visit to Prayagraj to attend the Kumbh Mela.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister, who took a dip in the Ganga, was taking part in the Swachh Kumbh Swachh Aabhaar\u201d award function, where he was acknowledged the efforts made by the \u2018swachh karmacharis\u2019 to keep the Kumbh grounds clean.<\/p>\n

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He then shocked the awardees by turning towards them to wash their feet.<\/p>\n

The sanitation workers, of whom one was a woman, expressed their joy at the gesture. One of them said, It\u2019s nothing less than a dream. Will share this proud moment with everyone. Modi deserves another chance as the country\u2019s head.\u201d<\/p>\n

After performing puja rituals at the Triveni Sangam, the Modi thanked the organisers and workers of Kumbh mela for taking care of the cleanliness of the place\u201d and making the religious gathering of 22 crore people possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve never seen a\u00a0cleaner Ganga previously and it has only been possible because of the Namami Gange project,\u201d said Modi, adding, The amount collected after auctioning the presents that I have received in the past four-and-a-half years as the Prime Minister are being used in the service of the Ganga.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that the amount of money he received as part of the Seoul Piece Prize has already been dedicated to Namami Ganga Mission.<\/p>\n

Stating that it was an emotional day for him, the Prime Minister said that washing the feet of sanitation workers and seeking there blessings have touched him and he vowed to continue to work for them\u201d<\/p>\n

They work from dawn to dusk but don\u2019t claim to credit or limelight for doing it. We hear about their commendable work back in Delhi,\u201d PM Modi said.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister then went on to say that a Swachh Sewa Samman Kosh has been constituted by his government in view of those who have tirelessly worked for the success of the global event (Kumbh).<\/p>\n

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath received the Prime Minister upon his arrival in the holy city. The Prime Minister also performed puja at the Sangam ghat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Allahabad, February 24 (News 18): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday performed Ganga Arti and washed the feet of sanitation workers during his visit to Prayagraj to attend the Kumbh Mela. The Prime Minister, who took a dip in the Ganga, was taking part in the Swachh Kumbh Swachh Aabhaar\u201d award function, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}