Nitin Gadkari And Swedish Scania Luxury Bus Controversy

A company related to the family of Indian union minister Nitin Gadkari was provided with a luxury bus by the Swedish manufacturer Scania that was reportedly used in his daughter’s wedding celebrations.

A bus maker from Sweden paid bribed in India including to a Minister whose name is not disclosed yet to get the contract of buses in the period of 2013 to 2016, Reuters reported from Stockholm, stating a probe by three media outlets, that included Swedish news channel SVT.

Few media reports in India said that the company having relation with the family of Nitin Gadkari, leader of BJP and Union Surface Transport and Highway minister, was offered a luxury bus that was reportedly used in his daughter’s wedding in 2016.

Scania is a Swedish company which is a truck and bus making unit under Volkswagen AG’s commercial vehicle arm Traton SE.

The office of the minister said that the minister was a forerunner in introducing the company’s bus fueled by ethanol in Nagpur as a part ...

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