Omar nominates Nobel laureate Satyarthi, Deepika for 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan'

October 24, 2014 16:46

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today nominated his political opponent and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and Nobel Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi among nine people to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan'.

Omar, who was nominated by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan to the campaign, launched by the prime minister earlier this month, had thanked the actor on microblogging site Twitter and asked him to watch the space for the names of the nine people he would nominate.

Apart from Mufti and Satyarthi, Omar nominated actress Deepika Padukone and politicians Milind Deora and Bayjant Jay Panda to the campaign.

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