October 16, 2014 17:58 IST

Sania Mirza does her bit during the Swachh Bharat campaign. Photograph: Sania Mirza/Facebook

Tennis star Sania Mirza joined the Swachh Bharat campaign, cleaning a road in Hyderabad before nominating nine persons, including fellow-sportspersons and Bollywood personalities, to join the movement.

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Sania, who was nominated by industrialist Anil Ambani, her father Imran and her team took brooms and cleaned one of the roads.

The Incheon Asian Games gold medallist later posted a video of her effort on her Twitter page.

"This is our way of trying to contribute, hope this will follow. We have to keep the movement going, so I would like nominate nine persons," she said in her video message.

She nominated fellow-tennis star Somdev Devvarman, squash player Dipika Pallikal, teen badminton sensation P V Sindhu, 2008 Olympic gold medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra, Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, actor Ritiesh Deshmukh, director Sajid Khan, Telugu movie star Ramcharan and Telangana politician K T Rama Rao.

The Swachh Bharat is a movement for cleanliness, was launched by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Gandhi Jayanti.