Congress targets Modi on KG Basin issue, seeks probe into GSPC debt by SC judge

“(The) Prime Minister has misled the nation. There are two types of politicians. One, who speaks lie for personal gain and (the) other, in whose blood lies are inherent, (in) whose DNA it is inherent to speak lies. Prime Minister comes in the second category,” Ramesh told reporters here.

Congress had earlier this month sought a discussion in Rajya Sabha on a CAG report regarding “anomalies” in Krishna Godavari (KG) Basin gas project claiming that the Gujarat government, under Modi, had created a “hype” over the project though it failed to strike gas despite spending crores of rupees on exploration.

“There is a controversy regarding BA and MA degrees of Prime Minister. But I would like to go in what he did in KG,” the former Union Environment minister told reporters while referring to the KG basin project where GSPC had obtained a block for gas exploration.

“Modi had in 2005 declared that there was 20 trillion cubic feet gas in KG basin ‘Deen Dayal’ block obtained by GSPC. Little did we realise then that this announcement was part of a big master plan to borrow enormous sums of money from banks to be used recklessly.