Gohil initiated the debate in the House on Monday and said that the state-owned Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) sold CNG to the Adani Group at Rs 24 per kg, which, in turn, sold it to GSRTC at Rs 29 per kg. In other words, the corporation was paying an additional Rs 34 lakh every month to this industrial house.

"If the GSRTC can purchase diesel or petrol to run its buses directly from the Centrally-owned oil companies, one fails to understand why a state-owned corporation cannot deal directly with another. The GSRTC can directly purchase CNG from GSPC at Rs 24 per kg, and not through an intermediary like Adani that sells the fuel at higher prices and makes huge profits," Gohil said, adding that the state transportation corporation purchases about six lakh kilos of CNG from Adani every month.

Responding to the allegation, Finance Minister Vajubhai Vala assured the Opposition leader that he would look into the matter.

Gohil also alleged rampant corruption in the purchase of bus tyres by the GSRTC. "Despite an MP-based tyre firm having been black-listed, the corporation continues to purchase poor-quality tyres. It also indulges in corruption involving lakhs of rupees while making purchases in other components and parts required for the buses," he said.

He said the GSRTC had initiated a move to give away its prime land in Surat, Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat to private parties on a 99-year lease under the guise of modernising the existing ST bus stations there. In Surat alone, the GSRTC is in possession of about one lakh sq metres of land, the prevailing market value of which is Rs 300 crore, he said, suggesting that the Corporation should follow the Karnataka pattern to develop and modernise bus stations on its own, and not through private builders by leasing out its properties at a throwaway price.