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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

Yeddyurappa To Meet Gadkari
India | Feb 04, 2012, 07:46 AM IST
Bangalore, Feb 4: Jockeying for a suitable position in the BJP, an unrelenting former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa will meet the party's central leadership in Delhi with a list of signatures of MLAs
PM Should Quit On Moral Ground, Says Gadkari
National | Feb 03, 2012, 08:59 AM IST
Faizabad (UP), Feb 3 : BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has no “moral right” to continue in office after the Supreme Court decision in the 2G Spectrum allocation case
Khanduri To Be CM If BJP Voted Back To Power, Promises Gadkari
India | Jan 24, 2012, 05:44 PM IST
Dehradun, Jan 24: B C Khanduri will remain the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand if the party is voted back to power as he possesses all the skills necessary for the post, including vision and transparency,

UPA Discriminating Against NDA-Ruled States, Alleges Gadkari
National | Jan 24, 2012, 05:57 PM IST
Dehradun, Jan 24: Criticising the UPA government for creating disparity between states ruled by NDA and others, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari today said that the Centre must understand the reality of federal structure of the
Kalraj Mishra Says, I Never Said Uma Bharti Is Outsider, She Cannot Become CM
India | Jan 24, 2012, 02:49 PM IST
Lucknow, Jan 24: BJP vice-president Kalraj Mishra today clarified that he never said Uma Bharti was an outsider, hence cannot become the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. PTI had in the morning circulated a news
Gadkari Says, Narendra Modi Has Good Potential To Be PM
India | Jan 22, 2012, 08:43 PM IST
New Delhi, Jan 22: Ruling out himself as his party's prime ministerial candidate, BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday favoured Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for the top job and promised to back his candidature

Gadkari Attacks Congress, SP For Indulging In Quota Politics
National | Jan 24, 2012, 06:00 PM IST
Hardoi (UP), Jan 22 : BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Saturday hit out Congress and Samajwadi Party for promising reservation to the Muslim community ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.“SP has promised to give
Congress, SP Playing Reservation Game In UP : Gadkari
National | Jan 17, 2012, 04:54 PM IST
Lucknow, Jan 17: BJP national president Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday accused the Congress and the Samajwadi Party of playing a game of reservation on the basis of religion for vote-bank politics in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.“The
Gadkari Accepts Kushwaha's Offer After All Round Criticism
National | Jan 08, 2012, 07:37 PM IST
New Delhi, Jan 8: Pushed on the backfoot, BJP President Nitin Gadkari today formally accepted tainted former UP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha's offer to keep his party membership in suspension till he is cleared of

BJP Postpones Kushwaha's Primary Membership Decision
India | Jan 07, 2012, 09:05 PM IST
New Delhi, Jan 7: After a public outcry, the embarassed leadership of BJP today decided to postpone the primary membership given to 'tainted' ex-BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, after the latter wrote a letter to
BJP Leaders Ask President For Early Reconvening Of Parliament To Pass Lokpal Bill
India | Jan 05, 2012, 01:54 PM IST
New Delhi, Jan 5: The entire phalanx of the senior BJP leadership today marched to Rashtrapati Bhavan to meet the President and demand early reconvening of Parliament to pass the pending Lokpal Bill. Led by
Gadkari Blasts UPA Government For Lokpal Fiasco
National | Dec 31, 2011, 10:16 AM IST
Shimla, Dec 31: BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Friday blasted UPA for the Lokpal fiasco accusing it of not being serious about passing the bill and asked Prime minister Manmohan Singh to resign on moral

Congress Has Made A Mockery Of Lokpal: Gadkari
India | Dec 25, 2011, 08:29 AM IST
Jalandhar, Dec 25 : Accusing the Congress of making of mockery of Lokpal, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said the UPA government has no intention of bringing a strong bill.“Congress does not want the
BJP Can Alter The Nation's Face In Three Years : Gadkari
National | Dec 24, 2011, 08:46 AM IST
Jalandhar, Dec 23 : Terming politics as the ladder to change the socio-economic condition of the country, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said that his party could change the nation's face in three years if it
Gadkari Favours Implementation Of GST
Dec 22, 2011, 10:09 PM IST
New Delhi, Dec 22: BJP President Nitin Gadkari today said his party favoured the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) but feared that Union government may adopt a discriminatory approach in releasing the collected

BJP To Dislodge UPA To Bring Economy Back On Track : Gadkari
National | Dec 22, 2011, 06:30 PM IST
New Delhi, Dec 22: Accusing the UPA of pursuing wrong economic policies, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari today said his party will overthrow the Congress-led alliance to bring the country back on the path of economic
Raj Thackeray To Meet Gadkari On Belgaum Issue
India | Dec 19, 2011, 06:06 PM IST
Mumbai, Dec 19 : Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray today said he would meet BJP president Nitin Gadkari over the state's long standing border dispute with Karnataka.“I will personally meet BJP president Nitin
Poverty Has Neither Caste, Nor Religion, Says Gadkari
National | Dec 10, 2011, 08:53 AM IST
Chandrapur (Maha), Dec 10: Urging people neither to depend on God nor the government to change their economic conditions, BJP national president Nitin Gadkari on Friday said that consistent efforts, self confidence, latest techniques, leadership
Gadkari Asks PM, Sonia, Tell Us How To Live On Rs 32 A Day
India | Dec 09, 2011, 04:57 PM IST
New Delhi, Dec 9: Dubbing Congress as a party of “capitalists and middlemen”, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari today ridiculed the Planning Commission's Rs 32 per day poverty cap and asked the Prime Minister and Congress
Cong Compromising With Mahatma Gandhi's Principles : Gadkari
National | Dec 04, 2011, 07:16 PM IST
Nainital, Dec 4: BJP president Nitin Gadkari today alleged the Congress-led UPA government was compromising with the principles of Mahatma Gandhi on the issue of FDI as the Father of the Nation was against foreign