New Delhi: Danish ambassador Freddy Svane pleased netizens no end on Friday after he posted a video with civic body workers who cleaned up a “trashy” lane next to the embassy.
He thanked “all the great people from NDMC (New Delhi Municipal Corporation)” and the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi “who took action”.
“Here we are at a place that was full of trash yesterday, today it is clean,” Svane said in the video posted on X, formerly Twitter. Happy with the civic body’s alacrity and “real action”, Svane captioned the post: “Thanks to New Delhi Municipal Council @tweetndmc #SwachhBharat”.
Happy to see real action. Thanks to New Delhi Municipal Council @tweetndmc #SwachhBharat pic.twitter.com/6chGtk35MS
— daikanyama (@svane_freddy) May 9, 2024
In the video, the envoy can be seen with NDMC workers, enthusiastically thanking them for cleaning up the service lane between Danish and Greek embassies in New Delhi’s diplomatic enclave — Chanakyapuri.
Some of the workers look amused, while others stand stiff in front of the camera. One woman can be seen calling out to another person to come join them and stand next to the ambassador.
X users flooded his post with one asking Svane to visit “other Indian cities” and get them similarly cleaned. “Great Ambassador. Real statesmanship,” another handle tweeted.
On Wednesday, the Danish ambassador had put out a video sarcastically welcoming people to “great, green and trashy New Delhi” after which immediate action was taken to remove the trash.
The service lane was laid out between the Greek and Danish embassies in 2019 “for movement of fire tenders and for any emergency situation” but had become a dump for trash.
“People are just dumping whatever they like here,” the envoy had said.
The previous video where the ambassador said he was “saddened by the condition of the lane” has now been deleted. “It was not a complaint,” he said.
(Edited by Tikli Basu)
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