New Delhi, Aug 19 (ANI): Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emphasis on the need for toilets in his Independence Day speech. In a statement on his website, Jairam Ramesh said, “”I have been saying that making India open defecation free should be a national junoon, a national obsession. When I was Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation, we had launched the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan and now Mr. Modi is taking that forward with his Swachh Bharat Mission,” Looking forward to the challenge of making India defecation free by 2019, which will be Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day address, “As a nation we must accept it and work collectively towards achieving that noble objective.
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