RS: When your supporters had smashed the toll, do you remember saying that CM has promised to alter toll policy after Model code of conduct comes to an end?
Raj: Yes
RS: While interacting with India TV reporter, Chief Minister said that there is no issue of toll, I have not given any assurance to Raj and I'm not going to do anything about it.
Raj: I know he is not going to do anything on this. After Model code is Conduct comes to an end, we'll do it ourselves. But I knew that he'd lie. That's why I'd taken some journalists along with me for that meeting. We had some editors and reporters. So it's not like he had just spoken to me. You can also cross – check with them on the assurance that he had given to me. I had told him that there are 22 tolls in Maharashtra. Cost of constructing roads is a little over 2 – 5 crore (per road) and the sum total would amount to around 100 crore. Now this amount can be covered in less than a year but tolls are given for 22 or 23 years. Its pointless collecting toll when the cost has been recovered. He (CM) said that he has got the point and he'll have them removed.
