UNION MINISTER of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday recalled a “bet” that he had won with industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani before the Pune-Mumbai Expressway was made more than 20 years ago. “I won the bet and could save my moustache,” Gadkari said in Pune on Friday.
Speaking at the 22nd convocation ceremony hosted by Sri Balaji University, (SBUP), Pune, at K N Ranganathan Auditorium, Gadkari said Dhirubhai Ambani was upset with him when he as a state minister had cancelled a tender.
“It was Dhirubhai Ambani’s firm that had submitted the lowest tender of Rs 3,600 crore. But I was emphasising that the expressway can be built for Rs 1,800 crore. Dhirubhai, however, said this was not possible.
