Digvijaya Singh alleges corruption in Rs 10,050-cr Kashmir tunnel contract, wants Gadkari sacked

However, Gadkari rubbished the charges of corruption and said Singh’s allegations were “completely false” as the
Ministry followed a transparent e-tender system. He also denied that his son was a director in IRB Infrastructure
Developers.

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Singh claimed that what was strange and unheard of is that the IRB was the sole bidder for the massive project in Jammu and Kashmir. He said government should have gone in for the Swiss challenge method.

Swiss challenge is a form of public procurement which requires a public authority that has received an unsolicited bid for a public project (such as a port, road or railway) or services to be provided to government, to publish the bid and invite third parties to match or exceed it.

Singh alleged that Gadkari had business dealings with Dattatreya Mhaiskar, head of IRB, which had shares in the controversial Purti group floated by the Minister. He claimed Gadkari’s son Nikhil was director for some years in a subsidiary of IRB.