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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Panaji: Terming the Land Acquisition Ordinance as pro-farmer, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today attacked Congress for opposing the proposed law and sought to know why it was not bothered about Social Impact Assessment (SIA) issue
New Delhi: Hopeful of bringing the opposition on-board to get the much-debated land legislation passed, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today said the government is not averse to more changes to the Bill.“We are not averse
Agra: A high-level Central government team headed by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari arrived in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday to visit certain parts of the state where farmers have suffered massive crop loss due to unseasonal
New Delhi: A former AAP MLA today alleged that calls, with Arvind Kejriwal's “consent”, were made to several party MLAs impersonating officials from Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari's office and offering them crores
New Delhi: Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday urged Congress president Sonia Gandhi to consider the land acquisition bill in the national interest and not on political grounds.He also challenged the Congress chief
New Delhi: Rejecting the dialogue offer on the controversial land bill, Sonia Gandhi today alleged it was a mockery of the consensus building exercise by a "myopic" Modi government which was "bending backwards" to favour
New Delhi: Top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) met in New Delhi on Monday to discuss the political situation, particularly in the wake of a row over the
New Delhi: Union minister Nitin Gadkari appeared in a court here on Saturday in connection with a defamation case he had filed against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.Gadkari, who appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha,
New Delhi: Congress today took a jibe at the government over Union Minister Nitin Gadkari writing a letter to Opposition parties including Sonia Gandhi to debate land acquisition bill asking “why this sudden wisdom has
New Delhi: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today sought to dispel fears of farmers on the new land bill saying government will not do anything which is against their interests and is ready to accept any
New Delhi: Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has invited social activist Anna Hazare and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for an open debate on contentious Land Acquisition Bill.Gadkari today wrote a letter to political leaders and
New Delhi: Putting an end to the rampant misuse of red beacon lights on cars that causes inconvenience to the general public, the Narendra Modi led NDA government is mulling to limit the use of
Gurgaon: Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, has approved the Haryana government's demand to have another national highway connecting Haryana to Rajasthan.Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, while addressing the farmers at the
A waterway will be developed between Delhi and Agra for which technical study will be conducted by a Holland-based company, government told Rajya Sabha today.Union Road Transport and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said the project
New Delhi: The ruling BJP today failed to rally the entire NDA behind it for the passage of the contentious Land Bill in Lok Sabha as key ally Shiv Sena abstained while one-member Swabhimani Paksha
New Delhi: Government plans to lay 30 km of roads per day in the next two years, up from the current level of 11 kms a day, Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.“We want to
Mumbai: Amidst the ongoing fracas over the land acquisition bill, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today met Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray to urge him to support the Centre over the contentious bill.Thackeray, who has been
Mumbai: Notwithstanding the stiff opposition to the land bill, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today said the Narendra Modi government was not on the “back foot” on the issue but conceded there may have been a
Mumbai: As news reports about his having enjoyed the hospitality of the Essar group during a trip to Europe triggered a row, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said he had visited a yacht belonging
New Delhi/Mumbai: Union Transport Ministe Nitin Gadkari was today at the centre of a controversy over reports that he and his family spent two nights on a luxury yacht owned by Essar group in the
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