On 6 August 2009, when the Upper House was discussing the availability of natural gas at competitive prices for power generation and other national priorities, Nathwani got up to defend the Reliance group, India’s top natural gas producer. The irregularities surrounding RIL’s conduct in gas extraction from the Krishna–Godavari basin in the eastern coast of India were already the subject of much controversy, and many accused it of trying to push up the price of natural gas and earn undue profits.
