Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said in the three and half years, Modi Government gave more than 8.5 crore new gas connections across the nation.
Addressing a press-conference at BJP Media Centre in Ahmedabad, Pradhan took a potshot at opposition Congress saying that from 1955 to 1995 total 13 crore gas connections were given by different governments, mostly ruled by the Congress.
He also claimed that within couple of months every household in poll bound Gujarat would have gas connections. “Congress leaders were questioning Modi Model of Development. This is the development model of Modi and BJP,” he said, adding that against the national average of 76 per cent gas connections, only 27 per cent gas connections had been given in Amethi constituency from where three generations of Nehru-Gandhi family elected over past decades.