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Scoffing at criticism levelled by Anil Ambani against his ministry after it rejected a pact between RIL and RNRL on gas supply to Dadri Power Project, petroleum minister Murli Deora today said the government had better things to do than settle the Ambani brothers’ feud.
Ever since he joined the government he had been hearing about the fight between Anil and his elder brother Mukesh, Deora said and wondered, ‘‘Don’t we have any other job than to settle their (Ambanis’) matters?’’
‘‘There will be no review of the decision. If we allow the price RIL has proposed, the government will suffer huge losses,’’ he reiterated, despite Anil maintaining that the agreement was not part of the 2005 family settlement — based on which the ministry rejected RIL’s proposal.
The petroleum ministry had late last month rejected the price of $2.34 per million British thermal unit proposed by Mukesh Ambani-led RIL for sale of natural gas to Reliance Natural Resources Ltd on grounds that it would lead to massive losses to government exchequer.
