Make this our Political Agenda

Make this our Political Agenda
This is what a foreign visitor wrote about our great country after a few visits.
“In my opinion the filth, squalor and all around pollution indicates a marked lack of respect for India by Indians. I don’t know how cultural the filth is, but it’s really beyond anything I have ever encountered.
At times the smells, trash, refuse and excrement are like a garbage dump. Right next door to the Taj Mahal was a pile of trash that smelled so bad, was so foul as to almost ruin the entire Taj experience. Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai, to a lesser degree, were so very polluted as to make me physically ill. Sinus infections, ear infection, bowels churning were an all too common experience in India. Dung, be it goat, cow or human fecal matter, was common on the streets.
In major tourist areas filth was everywhere, littering the sidewalks and the roadways. Toilets in the middle of the road, men urinating and defecating anywhere, in broad daylight were common sight. Whole villages are plastic bag wastelands. Roadsides are choked by it. Air quality that can hardly be called fit for breathing. Far too much coal and too few unleaded vehicles on the road. The measure should be how dangerous the air is for one’s health, not how good it is. People casually throw trash in the streets, on the roads.”
We take a bath everyday, our homes may be clean but we throw away filth all around us. We take holy dips in rivers that we worship, God knows on how many festival days. But we dump everything and anything in the same river. We have paper tigers burning effigies of anyone who goes against what we consider is against our ‘culture’ but do nothing to make our country clean, green and filth-free.
Here is a suggestion that I know will be laughed at. All political parties loosing a state or central election should earmark for one full year for all members and supporters to spend in cleaning our country of filth and educating citizens by example. During this period there should be no political agitation of any kind by them. Only the top leadership should attack the party in power in the center and states in the respective assemblies for policies and decisions that they consider wrong. If just Shrimati Sonia Gandhi and Shri Gadkari take the initiative, other party heads will fall in line. I appeal to them just do it for one year and see the difference.