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.
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Taking a jibe at the NYAY scheme of the Congress, Gadkari said the party which could not eliminate poverty in its 60-year rule was now talking of eliminating poverty with the NYAY scheme.
"If Pakistan doesn't stop terrorism, we won't have any other option but to stop river water to Pakistan. So India has started internally studying it. That water will go to Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan,” said Nitin Gadkari.
Gadkari, reportedly, fainted at the hotel. He had reached back Shimla after addressing a public rally at Sangla in Kinnaur.
The bold stamp was seen on the list of candidates put up at the New Indian English School polling station. Gadkari, who hails from Nagpur, is also the BJP candidate from the constituency.
Gadkari arrived at the polling booth at Town Hall in Mahal area along with his family members, including wife and two sons, around 10 am.
Gadkari said political parties should deliberate on economic policies, developmental issues and increase the level of debate.
Replying to questions from Rajat Sharma in India TV's show "Aap Ki Adalat", recorded in Nagpur today, Gadkari said: "I have full confidence that BJP will get full majority and Narendra Modi will become the Prime Minister. I have no dreams of becoming PM, nor am I lobbying for that post or approached anybody."
India TV Editor-in-Chief is hosting special edition Aap Ki Adalat in Nagpur. First guest on the special series of India TV's iconic show is Nitin Gadkari. Follow live updates from the show right here.
Today's Aap Ki Adalat show will give a chance to its viewers to ask questions to the Union minister through social media.
The sane voice in the political noise for 25 years, Rajat Sharma's Aap Ki Adalat will be coming to your town, where you will be able to ask the questions from the politicians.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today claimed that he was confident that his party would win more than 300 Lok Sabha seats and Narendra Modi will again become the Prime Minister. "I am not in the race", he added.
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