How Dwarka e-way landed in Nitin Gadkari’s lap

Gurgaon | Wednesday | 18th April, 2018

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“I have to say, since I am the transport minister, that it’s not good that people are buying more cars. Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had a “small” request for Union cabinet minister Nitin Gadkari at the Happening Haryana investors’ summit in March 2016. And who better to narrate this story than Gadkari himself.“Manohar Lal ji told me in my ear, ‘Ek chhota sa kaam hamara kardo’. Gadkari assured the gathering that the final hurdle stopping the expressway has now been cleared.Gadkari, who holds key portfolios, including road, transport and highways, was only too happy to take digs. I tell Khattar I’m making this road on your request and they are demanding money from me!” NHAI ) finally took over the Dwarka expressway in August 2016..