Foreign secretary leads cleaning drive at South Block

The Swachh Bharat cleaning drive reverberated in the ministry of external affairs with Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh leading the way with the broom at South Block.

Attired in a maroon-orange checked sari, Singh wielded the broom outside South Block, sweeping the pavement and the corners of the shrub-lined path and at the Jawaharlal Nehru Bhavan ministry office.

Earlier, she led Indian diplomats in taking the Swachh Bharat oath that Prime Minister Narendra Modi administered in the morning while launching the Clean India campaign on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, according to tweets posted by external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin.

In Washington too, the diplomats at the Indian embassy paid homage at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi after launching the My Clean India Mission.

Modi had also paid homage at the statue earlier this week during his visit to the US.