{
  "id": 15296706,
  "title": "War of words in Haryana: CM Saini pitches prosperity, Congress alleges rising crime, debt",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/war-of-words-in-haryana-cm-saini-pitches-prosperity-congress-alleges",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-17T22:20:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/haryana/war-of-words-in-haryana-cm-saini-pitches-prosperity-congress-alleges-rising-crime-debt/article71596746.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Chandigarh, Haryana - Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini addressed a press conference on October 17, 2026, marking two years since his government's third consecutive term began. Saini highlighted his administration's commitment to building a prosperous Haryana, contrasting it with the Congress party's alleged record of corruption, nepotism, fear, favoritism, and regional discrimination. He insisted that every citizen should have equal access to opportunities, essential services, and development benefits, regardless of their region or social background.\n\nHowever, the Congress party accused the BJP-led government of making false promises, increasing crime rates, causing unemployment, and amassing mounting debt. They alleged that under the Congress government, merit in government recruitment was replaced by political favoritism and monetary considerations, leading to widespread irregularities and scams. The Congress also claimed that the BJP government had concentrated development in just one region while neglecting others across the state.\n\nFormer Chief Minister Bhupendra Singh Hooda, now the leader of the Opposition, echoed these criticisms, stating that the BJP's twelve years in power were marked by broken promises, rising crime, the highest unemployment, and the highest debt in the country. Hooda pointed out that despite twelve years in office, the BJP still had no notable achievements to its name. He highlighted the situation where there were 2 lakh vacant posts in government departments while the government did nothing to address it. The unemployed youth were reportedly fleeing both the state and the country.\n\nHooda highlighted that Haryana was once ranked first in terms of per capita income, per capita investment, employment generation, honoring sportspersons and elders, minimum support price to farmers, welfare, and law and order under the Congress rule, but now, Haryana was the top state for unemployment, drug addiction, crime, and debt.",
  "summary": "The Chief Minister said that while Congress leaders frequently claimed to have made Haryana a leading State during their tenure, the reality was that the State had emerged as number one in corruption, nepotism, fear, favouritism and regional discrimination under Congress rule",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Hindu",
        "title": "Congress alleges ‘RSS employment scheme’ as Centre opens Census enumerator posts to private individuals",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/congress-alleges-rss-employment-scheme-as-centre-opens-census",
        "published": "2026-10-17T17:26:14.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}