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Nitin Gadkari

Nitin Gadkari

Nitin Gadkari is the senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been the Minister of Road Transport and Highways since 2019. He is also serving as the Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (2014), Shipping (2014 to 2019), Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (2017 to 2019) and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (2019 to 2021) in the successive Narendra Modi governments. Gadkari was the president of the BJP from 2009 to 2013. He has been a Lok Sabha member from the Nagpur constituency of Maharashtra for the last two terms. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Gadkari won the Nagpur seat by defeating Congress candidate Vilas Muttemwar with a margin of 2,84,848 votes. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Gadkari retained the Nagpur constituency by defeating Congress candidate Nana Patole with a margin of 2,16,009 votes. Gadkari was the Public Works minister in Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999 and also the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council from 1999 to 2005. Nitin Gadkari is again contesting from the Nagpur constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

Nitin Gadkari

Gadkari rubbishes purported tweet by him on Kiran Bedi
India | Apr 16, 2014, 07:34 PM IST
New Delhi: Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari today trashed media reports, which quoted a purported tweet by him to claim that Kiran Bedi will be party's chief ministerial candidate in the Delhi assembly polls. “The
Millions vote peacefully across India
National | Apr 10, 2014, 03:04 PM IST
New Delhi: Millions voted across 14 states and union territories Thursday in the third round of parliamentary elections to pick 91 of the country's 543 MPs.An estimated quarter of the 191 million electorate had voted
Court summons Kejriwal on May 21
National | Apr 07, 2014, 12:47 PM IST
New Delhi: A court here Monday directed former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear before it May 21 in a defamation case filed by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari.It had issued summons to Kejriwal to

Gadkari, Munde requested me not to contest LS polls, says Raj Thackeray
India | Apr 01, 2014, 08:29 AM IST
Pune: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray said on Monday night that BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari and Gopinath Munde had approached him with a request not to contest Lok Sabha elections to avoid division
Raj Thackeray targets Shiv Sena, Congress; supports Modi
National | Apr 01, 2014, 09:57 AM IST
Pune: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray Monday launched his Lok Sabha campaign in his inimitable style, with attacks on the Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP while strongly supporting BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.Targetting
Actor Preeti Jhingiani campaigns for Gadkari
India | Mar 29, 2014, 10:14 PM IST
Nagpur: Bollywood actor Preeti Jhingiani today campaigned for BJP candidate Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur. Addressing suporters in Khamla here, Preeti Jhingiani said, people of India now want change and the next government at the Centre

Nitin Gadkari owns Rs 3.87 cr flat, jewellery worth Rs 86 lakhs
National | Mar 22, 2014, 11:25 PM IST
Nagpur: Former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, who will be contesting his debut Lok Sabha election from Nagpur, today declared his assets including a 1,050 sq ft flat worth Rs 3.87 crore in Mumbai and jewellery
Don't discard Advani yet: Sena to BJP
National | Mar 22, 2014, 12:25 PM IST
Mumbai: Hitting out at BJP over the Advani ticket issue, Shiv Sena today questioned why the party took so long to decide on his Lok Sabha seat and said while Narendra Modi's era has begun,
Uma Bharti denies she ever sought ticket from Bhopal
National | Mar 21, 2014, 06:13 PM IST
Bhopal: BJP leader and saffron sannyasin Uma Bharti today denied that she had ever written a letter to party chief Rajnath Singh seeking a ticket from Bhopal. Uma Bharti has been selected to contest from

Modi meets Advani
National | Mar 20, 2014, 02:17 PM IST
New Delhi: Narendra Modi today met senior BJP leader L K Advani, who is sulking over being fielded from Gandhinagar in Lok Sabha elections as he wanted to shift to Bhopal.Modi went to his residence
Arvind Kejriwal threatens to jail media if AAP comes to power, later retracts
National | Mar 14, 2014, 01:09 PM IST
Nagpur: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday night lashed out at the media saying, large sections of the media was indulging in "paid" publicity in favour of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
Nagpur: Poll entrant Gadkari poses stiff challenge to Muttemwar
National | Mar 11, 2014, 03:47 PM IST
Nagpur: Battle lines have been drawn for the prestigious Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency here ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, where incumbent Congress MP Vilas Muttemwar is pitted against BJP stalwart and poll debutant Nitin

Rudy to meet Uddhav to soothe frayed nerves in Sena
National | Mar 11, 2014, 12:48 PM IST
New Delhi: Seeking to placate the Shiv Sena which is miffed over the recent thaw between BJP and MNS, party's Maharashtra in-charge Rajiv Pratap Rudy will today meet Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai to reassure its
Uddhav calls meeting of Sena leaders today over polls
National | Mar 11, 2014, 12:04 PM IST
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has called a meeting of his party office-bearers and Lok Sabha candidates here today, party sources said yesterday. In the meeting, the Sena leader is expected to discuss the
Shiv Sena calls Nitin Gadkari an astute businessman
India | Mar 05, 2014, 07:36 PM IST
Mumbai: Shiv Sena today called Nitin Gadkari an astute “businessman” adept at setting up deals after the BJP leader reached out to rival MNS Chief Raj Thackeray and it also ruled out expanding the Opposition's

Gadkari meets Raj Thackeray, discusses "political situation"
National | Mar 04, 2014, 02:40 PM IST
Mumbai: Former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari today met Raj Thackeray here, triggering speculation that the saffron party is trying to win over the MNS chief into NDA for upcoming elections even as he said there
No secret meeting between Raj and Gadkari, BJP says
National | Mar 03, 2014, 04:59 PM IST
Mumbai: Ashish Shelar, the city BJP chief, rubbished the reports of a secret meeting between former party president Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray at a five-star hotel here today.“Let me put
Advani stakes claim fight LS polls from Gandhinagar
National | Mar 01, 2014, 11:49 AM IST
Ahmedabad: A day after BJP's first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls was declared, veteran BJP leader L K Advani expressed interest to contest elections from his current constituency, Gandhinagar."The first list of
Kejriwal summoned in defamation case filed by Gadkari
National | Feb 28, 2014, 12:36 PM IST
New Delhi: Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was today summoned as an accused in a criminal defamation complaint filed against him by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari.Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha issued summon for April 7
Raj Thackeray, Nitin Gadkari praise each other in public
India | Feb 22, 2014, 04:41 PM IST
Nashik (Maharashtra): Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and former BJP president Nitin Gadkari today praised each other, with the former saying that the Mumbai Worli Sea Link and Mumbai-Pune Expressway would never have been