Patna, May 28: Road construction minister Rajeev Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh today launched a verbal attack on Union minister for road transport, highways and shipping Nitin Gadkari who had recently made the announcement of Rs 50,000-crore projects in Bihar.

Lallan slammed Gadkari and alleged him of telling utter lies as the all projects announced by the minister were sanctioned during the UPA government.

"The way the Centre has made the announcements, it seemed that they have kept Bihar on top of their priority list. If anyone tells lies they at least hesitate, however Gadkari is boldly telling the utter lies without any hesitation," said Lallan.

Lallan showed the list of the projects announced by Gadkari and compared it with another list prepared by the road construction department in which he accused the Union minister for repeating the old projects with one of those was even sanctioned in 2005.

"Three projects - four laning of Patna-Koilwar on NH-30, four laning of Koilwar-Bhojpur on NH-30 and NH-84 and four laning of Bhojpur-Buxar on NH-84 - were sanctioned in February 2012 and it's been three years that work has not even been awarded to any agency," said Lallan.

He also challenged the Centre over using kind of model to complete the project of which even the documents have not yet made properly. "The Centre is now talking about using hybrid annuity model to complete a few projects," he added.

Road construction department principal secretary Arun Kumar Singh said: "It is a mix of engineering procurement construction and build-operate-transfer and its nitty-gritty and implementation are quite tough and confusing as well. Interestingly, its documents are not yet prepared."