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Business Standard New Delhi

At a press conference to clarify a news item on a World Bank report saying a National Highways Authority official had been bribed, Road Transport Minister C P Joshi looked visibly irritated. This was not, as many thought, because of the news of corruption in a key agency under his ministry but the suggestion that he had not taken action on it. Responding to persistent questions from a journalist, he lost his cool and almost shouted, “Do not think that we have acted only when the report appeared in a newspaper? Do not take credit for that… I can show documents to prove that we acted on the report much earlier....”

 

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First Published: Apr 06 2012 | 12:59 AM IST

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