"The information is very revealing. We will look into it," Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said in Rajya Sabha.
Javadekar was responding to a supplementary asked by V Maitreyan (AIADMK) who showed cutting of a newspaper report in which it was alleged that Gandhi's political office had requested the then environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan to initiate action against the Adani Group.
To a supplementary, Javadekar said 25 applications for Terms of Reference (ToR) and seven for environment clearance have come since online submission of application scheme was introduced a month ago.
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