{"id":648389,"date":"2025-10-01T09:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648389"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:22:09","slug":"allegations-work-of-powerful-lobby-hit-by-ethanol-blending-of-petrol-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/allegations-work-of-powerful-lobby-hit-by-ethanol-blending-of-petrol-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Allegations work of powerful lobby hit by ethanol blending of petrol&#8217;: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday refused to be pulled into a controversy over allegations against him with regard to ethanol blending, saying it is work of a powerful import lobby upset by his decisions. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a programme here, the minister likened himself to a &#8220;tree that bears fruit,&#8221; and said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t respond to such criticisms because then it becomes news. The tree that bears fruit is the one people throw stones at. It is better that we avoid it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday refused to be pulled into a controversy over allegations against him with regard to ethanol blending, saying it is work of a powerful import lobby upset by his decisions. Speaking at a programme here, the minister likened himself to a &#8220;tree that bears fruit,&#8221; and said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t respond to such criticisms because then it becomes news. The tree that bears fruit is the one people throw stones at. It is better that we avoid it.&#8221;<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648389","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=648389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}