Akshay Kumar, Yogi Adityanath pick up brooms in Lucknow

Akshay Kumar is currently promoting his film Toilet Ek Prem Katha. The film also stars Bhumi Pednekar.

Bollywood star Akshay Kumar wielded a broom along with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday to make people aware of how cleanliness around one affects their health. At an event at a city school, Akshay along with Bhoomi Pedenkar, his co-star in the upcoming film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha also administered an oath of cleanliness to the students. The film releases on August 11.

Akshay Kumar during a press conference for Toilet: Ek Prem Katha in Mumbai. (IANS)

After Lucknow, the stars will be going to Agra to promote both cleanliness and the film, a member of the crew told IANS.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already praised the concept of the film. Adityanath on his part has been promoting the Swachh Bharat mission as the chief executive of the state and had wielded a broom on an earlier occasion also.