Adani Group head Gautam Adani today said he did not get any special favours from Narendra Modi. He said that his group has acquired only barren waste land for infrastructure projectssince 1993 . Adani told PTI in an interview in New Delhi that Adani Group began acquiring land near the coastal town of Mundra in Gujarat way back in 1993 and only one-third of a total landbank of 15,946 acres was acquired when Modi was Chief Minister.

Adani claimed that his group used the land to build India's biggest port, which loaded and unloaded a record 100 million tons of cargo in the year that ended on March 31, and the nation's biggest coal power station in the private sector. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has in his political meetings alleged that the Gujarat Chief Minister granted favours to industrialists like Adani. At a recent rally, Gandhi claimed that Modi had given Adani land for 1 rupees, the price of a toffee. AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal too has alleged a nexus between Modi and industrialists like Adani and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani.