“I was appearing on a show on the channel Colors Marathi. There was a discussion happening on poll promises. When there were Vidhan Sabha elections in Maharashtra, Gopinath Munde and Devendra Fadnavis had told me that they want to announce that they will do away with tolls.

I told them not to say anything like that since it will have financial repercussions. Then they said to me that the BJP government is set to come to power. To which I said that if we do, we will have to solve the problem (deliver on the promise).

Then I said that since we've been on the Opposition for many years, we made certain promises in the poll memorandum, as we were not used to be in power.

This entire clip of the Marathi show is available with Manoj Wadekar. You can take it from him and get translated if you don’t understand.

I didn’t name Modiji in the meeting, neither did I name BJP. I also did not talk about the Rs 15 lakh promise. A Delhi based newspaper put out a completely baseless report.

Since when has Rahul Gandhi started understanding Marathi? He should have gotten it translated from someone first. Without understanding it, he congratulated me on Twitter as well. He has done this before. I want to tell you all that I have always delivered on my promises. The discussion that happened in the Marathi show about tolls, that too has been fulfilled by Fadnavis by eradicating tolls.

There was no reference to whatever was reported.”