Anti-E20 campaign was paid to target me politically: Nitin Gadkari

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A day after criticising the “petroleum lobby” over the 20 per cent ethanol-blended petrol (E20) controversy, Union Road Transport 

and Highways Minister  Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said a paid social media campaign was launched to target him politically.

“The way your industry works, so does politics.  

The social media campaign was paid — it was against ethanol and it was done  to target me politically. There is no fact in it; everything is clear. (Ethanol blending is) import substitute, cost-effective, pollution-free, and indigenous,” the minister said at the annual convention of Society of Indian  Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) in New Delhi.

 

Gadkari said