Vajpayee's birthday will be 'Good Governance Day'

New Delhi, Dec 2: Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birthday Dec 25 will be observed as "Good Governance Day", Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Tuesday. The prime minister also told BJP MPs not to undertake any activity "for the purpose of display or show. It should be a genuine act". Briefing the media on the Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentary board's meeting, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy said all party MPs will devote an hour for sanitation Dec 25. He said Modi will be in Varanasi Dec 25 and take part in a sanitation drive. Modi told the parliamentarians to monitor the progress of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and asked them about their interest in sports. BJP president Amit Shah, who also addressed the meeting, asked the parliamentarians to step up efforts to recruit at least 10 crore members in the party. On the Good Governance Day, a core committee had been formed with Rudy and party leader Ananth Kumar as members to work on the various suggestions.