Nitin Jairam Gadkari is an Indian politician and currently serving as Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation in the Government of India. He was born on 27 May 1957 in Nagpur to Jairam Gadkari and Bhanutai Gadkari. He completed M.Com. and L.L.B. from University of Nagpur. During his teens, he worked for the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and the student union Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. Gadkari had served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party from 2010-2013 and as State President of Bhartiya Janata Party, Maharashtra. Nitin Gadkari contested 2014 Loksabha election successfully from Nagpur constituency by defeating Congress leader Vilas Muttemwar. Nitin Gadkari had served as the Minister of Public Works Department (PWD) of the Government of Maharashtra from and restructured it from top to bottom. He was also the president of the Maharashtra BJP. He is also known for the works during his tenure as a Public Works Department Minister in the state of Maharashtra when he constructed a series of roads, highways and flyovers across the state including the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, India's first six-lane concrete, high-speed, access controlled tolled expressway.
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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The voters in 102 constituencies will use their franchise on April 19 in the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. 21 states and Union Territories will go to polls in the first phase.
Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: In the Nagpur Lok Sabha elections in 2024, the battle is between incumbent MP Nitin Gadkari and Congress’s Vikas Thakre. Historically a Congress stronghold, the BJP tasted victory here in 1996, and Gadkari has been winning since 2014.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gears up for the Lok Sabha elections with a strategic move, opting for continuity by fielding a roster of senior leaders. Notable figures like Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and seasoned BJP leader Nitin Gadkari headline the candidate list.
Maharashtra has a total of 48 Lok Sabha seats and the BJP has declared its candidates on 20 seats in the state. The list features names such as Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal among others.
In its first list, the BJP released 195 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls. The list featured PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan among other top leaders.
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray has once again requested Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to leave the BJP. This offer came after Gadkari's name was omitted from the BJP's first list of Lok Sabha candidates.
Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, suggested that Union Minister Nitin Gadkari would likely be featured prominently in the BJP's second list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections once the ruling alliance in the state finalizes its seat-sharing agreement.
Nagpur Lok Sabha Election 2024: Madhav Shrihari Aney, Jambuwantrao Dhote, Banwarilal Purohit and Datta Meghe won the Nagpur constituency several times. BJP leader Nitin Gadkari has been representing the seat since 2014.
Nitin Gadkari has sent a legal notice to Congress asking it to remove a distorted clip of his interview shared by its leaders on social media. The Union Minister has also demanded an apology from the Grand Old Party.
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Nitin Gadkari, seated in the front row beside the window, flashed a bright smile as the IndiGo pilot made the special announcement in his honour. Passengers onboard were also seen clapping and cheering for him.
From its elected panchayat heads to district presidents and Union ministers, the BJP's 'national council' meeting is going to be the ruling party's biggest organisational get-together in recent memory -- an exercise aimed at galvanising its cadre for the Lok Sabha polls.
The highway will be constructed between N Kawnpui – Sairang section on National Highway-6. Once completed, it will de-escalate congestion in urban zones.
Nitin Gadkari praised former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, who was recently conferred the Bharat Ratna posthumously, and said such people have made the country's democracy strong.
The Bharat Ratna will be bestowed on Advani in a year of the Ram temple's consecration, which marks a triumphant closure for the BJP of an issue which was thrust into popular consciousness by the veteran leader through his 'Ram Rath Yatra' in 1990.
Nitin Gadkari remembered all those leaders who struggled for Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and said that the movement was to give back pride and respect to India’s history, culture and heritage.
Three months ago, India jumped from seventh position to third in the automobile exports sector, surpassing powerhouses like Japan.
The Union Minister informed that the average waiting time at toll plazas in 2020-21 and 2021-22 reduced in comparison to what it was in 2018-19 period. He also spoke about two pilot projects on automatic number plate reader cameras.
The MP from Thiruvanantharuram MP said that the project was initiated by him.
The expressway between Bengaluru and Chennai is being constructed in three phases. The entire length of the project is 262-km. Once completed, the expressway will reduce travel time between two capital cities significantly.
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