Chandigarh, June 14 -- Launching a scathing attack on the Congress, Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini said that despite ruling the country for 55 years, the principal opposition party had failed to empower India and had misled the people through what he termed an "era of falsehood".

Addressing a press conference to mark the completion of 12 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tenure, the CM said that the Congress' politics of deception has now come to an end.

Crediting the PM with transforming and strengthening the country during 12 years of governance-at the core of which were "good governance and rapid development"-Saini said rural areas have changed, cities have transformed, and the nation's overall development has progres...