{"id":645982,"date":"2025-09-12T12:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645982"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:13:19","slug":"gadkari-dismisses-criticism-of-indias-20-ethanol-petrol-rollout-as-paid-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gadkari-dismisses-criticism-of-indias-20-ethanol-petrol-rollout-as-paid-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari dismisses criticism of India\u2019s 20% ethanol petrol rollout as \u2018paid campaign\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday dismissed criticism of India\u2019s rollout of 20% ethanol-blended petrol (E20), calling it a campaign driven by \u201cvested interests\u201d and \u201cpaid\u201d efforts, while strongly defending the government\u2019s ethanol programme.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the 65th annual convention of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) in New Delhi, Gadkari said, \u201cThe campaigns on social media against ethanol were to target me politically.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday dismissed criticism of India\u2019s rollout of 20% ethanol-blended petrol (E20), calling it a campaign driven by \u201cvested interests\u201d and \u201cpaid\u201d efforts, while strongly defending the government\u2019s ethanol programme. Addressing the 65th annual convention of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) in New Delhi, Gadkari said, \u201cThe campaigns on social media against ethanol were to target me politically.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645982","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}