These are baseless allegations: CM
President of United States Donald Trump was in India recently for Namaste Trump event. According to rumours the two day visit coasted Rs 100 crore to Gujarat government. However, now the Chief Minister of Gujarat Vijay Rupani has refuted all the rumours and said these are baseless allegations.
Speaking on the last day of the three-day discussion on Governor Acharya Devvrat’s address to the Assembly, Rupani said: “The allegations made by various quarters that the Gujarat government spent over Rs 100 crore for ‘Namaste Trump’ event are baseless.”
“The state government spent only Rs 8 crore, while the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation spent Rs 4.5 crore. Thus, Rs 12.5 crore was spent on Trump’s visit to Ahmedabad. Other infrastructural expenditure like on roads and other works had already been sanctioned by the civic body and the Roads and Buildings Departments, prior to the US President’s visit. These had nothing to do with the ‘Namaste Trump’ event,” Rupani said.
The opposition Congress had raised the issue of alleged extravagant government spending ahead of Trump’s visit during the discussion on the Governor’s address on the first day of the Assembly’s Budget session.-Inputs from IANS
