The third anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission), launched on a war footing by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, might just come as an embarrassment for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states of the country.

These states, two-thirds of all states in India, seem to be faring poorly in implementing the scheme meant to provide a toilet to every Indian household without one. ALSO READ: 10 unseen clean India ads of Modi's Swachh Bharat The worst performers are Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP came to power this year – in a ...