'Mammoth support' for Khattar showing 'direction of the wind' in Haryana: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the "mammoth support" for Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar shows the "direction of the wind" in Haryana and makes clear with whom people's blessings will be in the assembly election.

At his first poll rally in Rohtak ahead of state polls, in October, Modi said Haryana's BJP government has ended corruption, "the game of" transferring teachers and illegal farm-land deals. He also alleged previous governments only promoted "parivarvaad" (dynastic politics).

The prime minister said there were two objectives for his Rohtak visit. First, he added, was to "gift" development projects and also to "witness the mammoth support" for CM Khattar.

"What I am seeing here is unprecedented," Modi said, referring to the large number of people gathered here to listen to him. "This shows the direction of the wind."
"Who used to become CM here," he asked the people there and then went on to answer the question himself. "Here, a CM was preferred who could take truckloads of people to Delhi and beat drums outside the home of the PM of that time."