Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a new direction to the country. “When India speaks today, the whole world listens,” he said.

Targeting the Congress at a rally in Tohana, which is a part of the Sirsa Lok Sabha constituency, Saini said that when they were in power, they used to give mere slogans and make hollow promises. The BJP-led Governments at the Centre and in the State have delivered on what they promised, he said.

This was Saini’s second poll rally within two days in Sirsa constituency. The first was in Ratia in Fatehabad district.

Slamming the Congress as “double faced”, Saini said that on one hand, it supports the “tukde-tukde gang”, and on the other, it takes out a “Bharat Jodo Yatra”, while referring to Rahul Gandhi’s 2022-23 Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir yatra.

Attacking the opposition INDIA bloc, Saini said: “If you look at the ‘ghamandiya gathbandhan’, neither its policy is right nor its intent, and till today, no one knows what kind of leadership it has.” The BJP has the right policy, intention and leadership, he said at the rally in Tohana, also in Fatehabad, to garner support for BJP’s Sirsa candidate Ashok Tanwar.

Stating that India’s prestige has increased globally under Modi’s leadership, Saini said: “Before 2014, the world used to speak and India used to listen. In 2024, India speaks and the world listens.”

Saini, asserting that the country has become safe and secure under Modi’s leadership, said that Prime Minister Modi took a bold decision and that resulted in the scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution. The Congress could never have done this, he said, adding, “Congress even today says they will reconsider it (if they come to power). But the country has decided not to give them this chance, and people will bring back Modi ji by giving more than 400 seats.”