Sharing Concerns with States

For the first time and typical of an unconventional Minister of the like of Baalu, he went around the country to meet Chief Ministers of various States, talked to them about their pending demands as well as the support needed for the oil companies, pertaining to refineries expansion projects, oil terminals and depots, petrol and gas pipelines etc. This strategy worked out to the best advantage of the oil companies as well as States. When commented on this style of his, T.R. Baalu used to retort jocularly it is like the ‘Mountain going to Mohammad instead of Mohammad going to the mountain’.