Former Union Minister Vijay Goel on Saturday collected soil from the memorial sites of several Prime Ministers and other great leaders in Delhi as part of the Meri Maati-Mera Desh campaign.
Accompanied by Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Goel started the soil collection campaign from Mahatma Gandhi's memorial at Rajghat.
Goel had earlier announced that he would collect soil from the memorials of great personalities in Delhi as part of the campaign.
Under the Meri Maati-Mera Desh campaign announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, soil was collected from memorials of different prime ministers situated near Rajghat, he said in a statement.
Soil was collected from the memorials of Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Chaudhary Charan Singh, Chandrashekhar and Socialist leader Jagjivan Ram, it added.