{"id":550490,"date":"2023-01-28T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T04:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=550490"},"modified":"2023-01-28T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T05:45:02","slug":"gadkari-recalls-how-he-won-a-bet-with-dhirubhai-ambani-over-pune-mumbai-e-way-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gadkari-recalls-how-he-won-a-bet-with-dhirubhai-ambani-over-pune-mumbai-e-way-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari recalls how he won a bet with Dhirubhai Ambani over Pune-Mumbai e-way cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNION MINISTER of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday recalled a \u201cbet\u201d that he had won with industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani before the Pune-Mumbai Expressway was made more than 20 years ago. \u201cI won the bet and could save my moustache,\u201d Gadkari said in Pune on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was Dhirubhai Ambani\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNION MINISTER of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday recalled a \u201cbet\u201d that he had won with industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani before the Pune-Mumbai Expressway was made more than 20 years ago. \u201cI won the bet and could save my moustache,\u201d 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. \u201cIt was Dhirubhai Ambani\u2019s firm that had submitted the lowest tender of Rs 3,600 crore. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}