Maharashtra will be clean if CM, Drishti & government are a team, Fadnavis told 11-year-old interviewer

MUMBAI: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, in his interview to an 11-year-old girl from the city, said the state needs to improve in infrastructure, food and education.
His interviewer, Drishti Harchandrai, a class V student of JB Petit School, was particularly impressed with Fadnavis’s response to what he would do to keep the state clean. “He told me keeping the state clean is not just the government’s responsibility.It will be clean when Drishti, the chief minister and the government get together and be a team,” she said.
Drishti, who met the chief minister on Sunday at Sahyadri Guest House and interviewed him for her school magazine, has become a celebrity to her friends. “All my friends in the school bus called me a ‘celebrity’ and told me to take them the next time I meet the CM,” she said.
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On Sunday, Drishti stepped out of her home to buy stationery for a school project from a nearby store when she thought of trying her luck at meeting the CM, who was staying at Sahyadri, close to her house. “In school, we had decided to write letters to famous people and see if they reply but I thought of meeting him. The security guard told me he was busy so I decided to wait,” she said. She wrote a letter to the CM, with her number and address on it, asking him to meet her. After an hour, a tired Drishti decided to leave when a security guard called for her. “I was so thrilled when the guard told me the CM would meet me. I did not have any questions ready but I quickly made a few in my mind,” she said.
Drishti has already written out her five questions and the CM’s replies to them on paper, which she will submit to the magazine. The colourful paper also has Fadnavis’s autograph on the other side.
Ever since a picture of her letter to the CM circulated on the internet, Drishti has been answering calls from children across the state. “From Tuesday morning she attended over 200 calls from children from places like Malwan and Raigad who want to know what she told the CM or how they can meet him,” said her mother, Baani Harchandrai.