Gurugram: A day earlier than Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Jind, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini drove to a railway junction in an electrical automotive.
He went out and walked across the website with ministers and posted a video of himself on the X-handle of the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering in Haryana. The message was easy. Gasoline and diesel aren’t any good, even if you’re answerable for the state.
That video, and a second video later launched by Saini, had been the opening strikes of what the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering is now calling the primary inexperienced political rally in Haryana’s historical past.
“This would be the first rally by the celebration the place no diesel or petrol autos can be used. That is our first inexperienced rally to announce the departure of the nation’s first inexperienced hydrogen practice and welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modiji, who’s right here to inaugurate a number of different infrastructure initiatives within the state,” Saini mentioned in a second video posted on Haryana BJP’s X-handle.
Saini added that petrol and diesel autos may also not be utilized in different districts of Haryana the place folks will watch the prime minister’s speech on tv screens.
He mentioned ministers assigned duties of their respective districts would additionally use EV and CNG autos for transportation.
Forward of the scheduled go to of Prime Minister Shri @NarendraModi ji, Chief Minister Shri Nayab Singh Saini ji and State President Dr. Archana Gupta ji arrived at Jind Railway Station to take inventory of the preparations.
It additionally inspected the preparations and issued vital directions to the officers. pic.twitter.com/jVOUGt2bjB
— Haryana BJP (@BTC4Haryana) July 16, 2026
Prime Minister Modi arrived in Jind on Friday morning and launched into the nation’s first hydrogen-fueled practice that runs between Jind and Sonipat. It was the primary time in virtually 12 years that he had visited the world.
From the HSVP website, he nearly inaugurated or laid the muse stone for a number of different initiatives, together with the Kurukshetra elevated railway, the Haryana part of the Delhi-Jammu-Katra Expressway, Authorities Medical Faculties at Koriyawas and Bhiwani in Narnaul, alongside his handle.
The state authorities has constructed an general “inexperienced” transportation plan round hydrogen trains. The federal government has deployed 146 electrical buses to move folks to Jind, primarily from Jind itself, Hansi and Gohana. CNG buses and electrical rickshaws had been liable for the final mile transportation to the venue. Individuals from remainder of Haryana didn’t journey to Jind in any respect. They watched Mr. Modi’s speech on LED screens put in in all 22 districts, and ministers and MPs had been the company of honor at every screening.
The BJP posted one other video during which Haryana Minister Mahipal Dhanda is seen main BJP employees in the direction of Arya PG School in Panipat on a bicycle. The celebration had subsequently deliberate an occasion to televise the prime minister’s rally within the space.
As we speak, Shri Prime Minister @NarendraModi ji will provide many distinctive presents to Haryana.
A particular occasion was organized at Arya PG School, Panipat to look at the stay protection of this historic occasion.
Shri Minister @MAHIPALDHANDA1 ji and all colleagues of Panipat Rural… pic.twitter.com/mPzB94BHSh
— Haryana BJP (@BTC4Haryana) July 17, 2026
Chatting with ThePrint forward of his go to, Rajya Sabha MP and former Bharatiya Janata Social gathering president Subhash Bharara defined the thought behind the Prime Minister’s occasion. He mentioned the celebration wished to ship a message on saving petrol and diesel. He recalled that on the top of the Gulf Battle, Prime Minister Modi appealed to the nation to cut back gas use after which maintained autos in his personal convoy, and that the prime minister and cupboard ministers adopted go well with and deserted native pilot autos.
Bharara had come to Sirsa because the visitor of honor at a screening of the movie in Sirsa, and he himself took an electrical automotive. He mentioned Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar was additionally doing comparable actions in Karnal, different ministers and MPs had been doing comparable actions of their respective constituencies, and Saini and the remainder of the cupboard members had been utilizing EVs and CNG autos to journey to the venue. He mentioned so far as he is aware of, that is the primary such rally by any political celebration in Haryana.
However the opposition was not impressed. Senior Congress chief and former MP Brijendra Singh mentioned the celebration’s major concern is what Prime Minister Modi will give to Haryana by way of initiatives. As for the eco-friendly declare itself, he mentioned PM Modi’s authentic enchantment was not nearly gas, but in addition asking folks to journey much less overseas, and he has since visited greater than eight nations. Singh mentioned the eco-friendly tag must be learn as a “image” and that the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering has constructed actual experience within the space.
The federal government’s personal equipment endorsed the framework properly earlier than Friday. At a press convention in Jind on July 8, Mr. Saini had already described the rally as a “new chapter of improvement” for the state and mentioned the rally can be run fully on the message of petrol-diesel discount and that the majority individuals would use electrical or CNG transport. Additionally current had been Bharatiya Janata Social gathering state secretary Archana Gupta, a number of ministers, MLAs and senior officers, who collectively labored out route planning, safety, energy provide, water and sanitation preparations.
The celebration additionally took its message to the bottom. At a employees’ rally in Julana on Thursday, Haryana Social Welfare Board chairman and Uchana MLA Yogesh Bairagi requested Bharatiya Janata Social gathering employees to achieve the Jind venue solely in electrical or CNG autos to convey the message about clear power to the folks.
(Edited by Vinny Mishra)
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