Mumbai, Feb 27 (ANI): Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday admitted that he had taken a chopper ride from French city Nice to Riviera waterfront for the yacht cruise during a trip he had made in 2013. He added that he was not a minister, MP or MLA during that time and that he had paid from the entire trip from his "family account". Gadkari was at the was at the centre of a controversy over reports that he and his family had spent two nights on a luxury yacht owned by Essar group in the waters of French Riviera in July, 2013 on which a PIL was filed in the Supreme Court.