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RTI query reveals PMO received three letters from Ganga activist GD Agrawal, but failed to act
FirstpostA month after environmentalist GD Agrawal died fasting for a clean Ganga, an RTI query has revealed that the Prime Minister’s Office received three letters from him demanding specific steps to be taken to imrpove the state of the river, but it failed to take action. A month after environmentalist GD Agrawal died fasting for a clean Ganga, an RTI query has revealed that the Prime Minister’s Office received three letters from him demanding specific steps to be taken to improve the state of the river, but it failed to take action. Activist wanted Modi’s assurance Agrawal’s aides claim that he wrote four letters addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi but he did not receive a response to even one. Suresh Raikwar, a close aide of the Ganga activist and another leading member of the Ganga Sadbhavana Yatra said, “Professor Agrawal would have broken his fast if the prime minister had personally assured him.” The Wire report also quotes Swami Shivanand Saraswati, Agarwal’s spiritual guru and the founder president of Matri Sadan, the ashram that was Agarwal’s home as saying, “The letters were very clearly addressed to the Prime Minister.
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