Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta at a cleanliness drive at Ring Road in New Delhi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta led a cleanliness drive on Tuesday on the Ring Road, urging residents to chorus from defacing partitions with posters or graffiti.

“I request that at the very least don’t paste posters with my {photograph}. No kind of defacement might be tolerated. We ought to maintain working to wash town,” Ms. Gupta stated.

The cleanliness drive was part of ‘Seva Pakhwada’, a 15-day social service marketing campaign to have a good time Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday.

Ms. Gupta emphasised that cleanliness shouldn’t simply be a matter of a drive, however a every day effort, with each part of society, together with RWAs, public representatives, and customary residents, taking part.

Several Ministers additionally participated within the drive alongside Ring Road.

Hindi language occasion

The CM additionally joined the ‘Hindi Pakhwada’ occasion at Delhi Secretariat and stated that “different languages grew and flourished from Hindi”.

“Hindi is the language of our identification and satisfaction. If Sanskrit is our root, then Hindi is the trunk from which different languages develop and flourish. Learning international languages is beneficial, however we must always by no means really feel hesitant about our personal language. Just as nobody can take the place of a mom, no different language can take the place of Hindi,” Ms. Gupta stated in an announcement.

The occasion was hosted by the Department of Art, Culture, and Languages.

Published – September 24, 2025 01:42 am IST