On Tuesday, Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari denied the false allegations of corruption in electoral bond scheme.
‘The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will return to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections’, said Nitin Gadkari.
Gadkari said he did not want to make any comment on the electoral bond scheme as it would amount to contempt of court since the matter is sub judice in the Supreme Court.
Gadkari added, ‘The government had not awarded a single tender for infrastructure projects without e-tenders’.
He said, ‘I have awarded work worth ₹25 lakh crores in 10 years. In water issues, in shipping, and later in the roads sector, ropeways, cable cars, tunnels, express highways, we have not done even one work without e-tenders. Every project was executed in a manner transparent, non-corrupt, time-bound and committed to quality’.
He claimed that he was ready to face the punishment if even a single person came forward and said that they had been asked to pay money to get work from the government.
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