Modi Invokes Mahatma Gandhi to Clean Mother Ganga
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The first public gestures that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made on his election were to thank two mothers -- his own and Mother Ganga, the most famous waterway in India.
The new leader visited his mom, then went on to Varanasi along the Ganges, India’s most threatened river, where under a canopy brightened with marigold flowers and cheered by his constituents as millions watched on television, Modi promised the sacred river would be clean in five years.