Varanasi gears for PM Modi's birthday celebration

Union Home Minister and BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday kicked-off the party's "seva saptah" (service week) as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday celebrations and appealed to citizens to shun the use of plastic.

Shah, along with the Bharatiya Janata Party Working President J.P. Nadda, senior party leader Vijay Goel and Vijender Gupta swept the floors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here as part of the 'seva saptah' campaign.