Gohil objects to TV ad featuring ‘injustice to Gujarat by centre’
Gandhinagar, 17 August 2012
Gujarat is being provided about 27% of gas from the centre and the Congress led UPA Government at the Centre has allocated more gas to Gujarat than the BJP led NDA Government of the past, Leader of Opposition Shaktisinh Gohil said in a statement today.
“Gas is available with the Central Government as per the Administered Price Mechanism (APM), out of which a large share is given to Gujarat. In reality APM gas is provided by the Government of India to Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat at the same rate of 4.2 US Dollars minus the royalty per MMBTU. There is not a variation of a single paisa in the rate of gas provided by the Government of India,” Gohil said adding that the Government of Gujarat has recently published an anonymous advertisement called ‘Congress’s slap in gas allocation to Gujarat’.
“As per the law, no advertisement can be published without a name, yet this absolute lie by the Chief Minister is being illegally published. Whenever the elections come near, the spirit of Goebbels residing inside the Gujarat Chief Minister becomes hyperactive and spreads many lies. In reality, the Government of Gujarat charges 15% VAT on Gas, while Governments in other states charge VAT between 0% to 4 % on Gas. As there is more VAT on Gas in Gujarat, costly gas is provided to Gujarati’s,” Gohil further said adding that “to hide this fact from the public, the Chief Minister of Gujarat has spent lakhs of rupees on these frivolous advertisements and slapped the people of Gujarat”.
Gohil said, “APM gas is available to the Government of India at 119.51 MMSCMD,Million Metric Standard Cubic Meter Per Day, against which the total requirement of the country is 226 MMSCMD. Hence the demand for Gas is more than the supply and as a result the government has to import gas from international market. From the 119.51 MMSCMD, amount of Gas available, the Government of India is providing maximum share of 26.7 MMSCMD to Gujarat. This being the truth, the anonymous advertisements displayed on Television by the Gujarat Government show as if the Central Government is not providing Gas to Gujarat at all and it is only giving a slap Gujarat. In fact Gujarat is getting more gas now than what it was getting during BJP Government’s rule at Centre. APM gas 4.4 MMBTU minus royalty, this rate is same for Gujarat, Mumbai and Delhi.”
Gohil said that gas should be supplied in the state at the rate which comes after mixing imported gas in low priced gas which is found in Gujarat. But the fact is that Gujarat levies highest 15% VAT on gas. On top of it the distribution is given to Modi’s favourite Adani and people have to pay more price. People of the State do not get gas at lower prices and recently CAG has found that gas is given at a price much lower than purchase price to Adani. People have to bear burden of corruption of crores of rupees of Adani, he added.
Gohil challenged Modi for a public debate on CAG report about providing gas to Adani at low prices, 26.7 MMSCMD Gas supplied to the State by the Central Government out of 119.51 MMSCMD of Gas and commission given to Modi’s favourite company. In Gujarat, he said, Public Sector Company GSPC gets gas from the Centre. Shortfall of gas is met by buying gas from international market. Gujarat ST buses use CNG gas from this stock. In a situation when one has to use something at two places one does not retain a middleman. However, Modi is using services of Adani as a middleman to provide GSPC gas to State Road Transport Corporation and thus giving Adani commission of millions of rupees.
A situation of drought has developed in Gujarat and the Chief Minister should declare a drought in the State and help people, which he is not doing. Farmers are committing suicide, livestock is starving, Narmada water is flowing into the sea. Instead of diverting this water to farms or available ponds and lakes or rivers of North Gujarat and Kutch, the Chief Minister is keeping this water in Sabarmati River and enjoying rides on motor boats, he said. The Chief Minister is putting false allegations on the Central Government to spread his lies. The cost of these false and anonymous advertisements on TV should be borne by BJP; instead lakhs of rupees are spent from the corpus of the State Government to spread these lies, which is illegal. This is the money of people of Gujarat.
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Shaktibhai( not Sih (lion). TOO Much long and confusing. What supreme court ordered central govenment to in favour of Government of Gujart ( in your language Narendra Modi ) about gas and howmuch rate is going to down . put value in rupees and what is equivalant to 15% . People of gujarat wants to know fact about litigation.
commonsense This advertisement has come out from GOG ( Narendra Modi) in refernce to supremecourt decision . Case was filed by GOG and won by GOG . BJP Has nothing to do with it .
your argrument is not convincing.
-Gohil = go hila !
Why does he forget just a month ago court had ordered Govt to supply CNG at same rate as Delhi, Mumbai as Center was giving CNG at 15-20 Rs. higher to Gujarat. Also why Center doesn’t pay royalty for Gas found in Gujarat, center is taking whole of it.
This person may have a valid argument or not…It is debatable situation….BUT THIS parson , I will not thake his name ,has sickness and he can not see anything right….. HIS mind set is such that he can nor see anything good for Mr. MODIJI…. and He has to OPPOSE… HIS eyes are set with CONGRESS mind and I am not surprised for his oppose… LET him just bark… JAY HIND..
These uneducated will tell any lie to promote congress. More gas may be allocated NOW but there are several other things that centre is against giving Gujarat. Did gohil’s sasra Praful Patel give any direct flights to Ahmdabad? Is enough fertiser aloocated to Gujarat? When there good cotton crop, doesn’t congress stop Gujarat farmers selling them on open market?
Wah Shakti Bapu Wah!!! It is indeed an honour to have you as Leader of Opposition in Gujarat Assembly.
I know you are committed to Gujarat. Good Analysis and Opposition, which is neccessary for the spirit of Democracy.
Further to Comptroller and Auditor General of India(CAG) has reported following in his Report of GSPL.
“During the period 2006-09, 73,70,196 MMBTU quantity of gas was sold to
AEL by the Company from the gas purchased on spot purchase basis from
Hazira LNG Private Limited. The spot purchase price of the gas was ranging
from ` 340.95 per MMBTU to ` 1,075.44 per MMBTU, whereas it was sold
to AEL at the price lesser by ` 5.23 to ` 430.79 per MMBTU during the
period from 2006-07 to 2008-09 without any recorded reason. This led to
passing of undue benefit of ` 70.54 crore at the cost of Company’s revenue”
Please visiti CAG website on following link to view this fact. saiindia.gov.in/english/home/Our_Products/Audit_Report/Government_Wise/state_audit/recent_reports/Gujarat/2011/Commercial/Chap_2.pdf.
People,s money is wasted to benefit Adani Group. What about Share holders of GSPL who are loosing value of their share because of this kind of steps of Goverment.
AS U HAVE GIVEN ARGUMENT OF CAG REPORT ON GSPL, I THINK U R PURE CONGRESSMAN AND U HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY AS IN CENTRE, CONGRESS’ BIG BOSSES R NOT ACCEPTING CAG AT ALL, THEY R ???NING CAG’S ROLE AND CAG’S POWER,
If Congress has done corruption that does not give automatic right to BJP Gujarat Govt to do corruption.
yes, u r absolutely right. now, u r on right direction,nobody in the country has right to do corruption,CAG REPORT ON COMMONWEALTH,2G SCAM.COALGATE IS MUCH BIG SCAM, GUJARAT CONGRES IS TARGETING ADANIS FOR THAT,ALL MUMBAI CLUB OR INDUSTRIALISTS INDULGE IN SUCH ACTIVITIES,THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR COUNTRY AS A WHOLE, BUT, POLITICIANS R MORE DANGEROUS THEN CORPORATE WORLD,CORPORATE WORLD IS NOT DIVIDING COUNTRY IN THE NAME OF RESERVATION,CAST, CREED,RELIGION,CONGRESS, BSP, SP MAMTA, NITISH, LALU HAS ONLY ONE AGENDA HATE BJP CAMPAIGN AND TAKE VOTE FROM MINORITIES, U AND I ALSO WILL SUFFER WHEN THIS PEOPLE DIVIDE THE COUNTRY IN MULTIPLE WAYS, THERE SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY COMPROMISE OR RESERVATION IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION,SECURITY,GOVT MACHINERY, THIS SITUATION WILL KILL SOCIETY’S INTEGRITY,WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY, COUNTRY NEED A LEADER LIKE SANJAY GANDHI, NAREDRA MODY, RAJ THAKEREY STYLE LEADER WITH COMMITTMENT AND GOOD GUTSY DECISION POWER,WE JUST WANT THIS TYPE OF PEOPLE WITH SOME HUMANITY AND PATRIOTISM,TODAY, OPPORUNISTS LIKE NGOS,MEDIA LIKE GUJARAT SAMACHAR AND ENGLISH ELECTRONIC MEDIA PLAYING THEIR GAME AND CREATING BAD IMAGES OF SUCH DYNAMIC PERSONALITIES FOR THEIR OWN BENEFITS,3 M LEADER R DANGEROUS FOR THE NATION
now a days, congress’ old agenda of kham theory didnot work, they have started other gimmick, HORRIBLE GIMMICK, IF U MAKE AGREEMENT AND REGISTERED A HOME WITH JANTRI THEN NO PROBLEM, R U READY FOR THAT U SHOULD COME OUT WITH SCHEME BEFORE 5 YEARS,THEN YOUR SCHEME WILL BE READY NOW, HOW MUCH MONEY WILL HAVE TO BE THERE ANY IDEA MR. CONGRESS MAN,