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RIL project had PM's approval, says Amarinder

Staff Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: The controversial "farm to the folks'' project proposed by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) in Punjab had been approved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saidChief Minister Amarinder Singh. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, Capt. Singh said the Prime Minister had given his verbal consent when a group of Ministers, including Punjab's Finance Minister Surinder Singla called on him. He rubbished all talks about the Union Government and the Congress high command being unhappy about the project. "When they did not interfere in the previous 161 mega projects, why should they bother about the 162nd?'' he asked.

Responding to a query, the Chief Minister also denied that the RIL project had come up for discussion when he met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi in New Delhi recently. He stressed that the meetings were to appraise the party high command of the indiscipline being created by the special invitee to the Congress Working Committee, Jagmeet Singh Brar.

Meanwhile, talking to The Hindu over the phone, Mr. Brar while reiterating his "strong'' commitment to protecting the "pro-poor'' agenda of the party as well as the interests of the State, expressed satisfaction that the Chief Minister had explained `his' side of the story about the RIL project to the party leadership.

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