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Nitin Gadkari

Nitin Jairam Gadkari

DOB: 27/05/1957

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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Uma Bharti denies she ever sought ticket from Bhopal

Politics | 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

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Modi meets Advani

Politics | 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

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Arvind Kejriwal threatens to jail media if AAP comes to power, later retracts

Politics | 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.

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Nagpur: Poll entrant Gadkari poses stiff challenge to Muttemwar

Politics | 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

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Rudy to meet Uddhav to soothe frayed nerves in Sena

Politics | 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

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Uddhav calls meeting of Sena leaders today over polls

Politics | 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

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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

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Gadkari meets Raj Thackeray, discusses "political situation"

Politics | 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

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No secret meeting between Raj and Gadkari, BJP says

Politics | 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

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Advani stakes claim fight LS polls from Gandhinagar

Politics | 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

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Kejriwal summoned in defamation case filed by Gadkari

Politics | 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

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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

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Ex-CM has habit of making false and defamatory statement: Gadkari

Politics | Feb 18, 2014, 07:55 PM IST

New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal has the “habit” of making false charges without any basis, BJP leader Nitin Gadkari today told a court here seeking initiation of criminal defamation proceedings against the AAP leader for allegedly

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Gadkari files defamation case against Kejriwal

Politics | Feb 18, 2014, 04:28 PM IST

New Delhi: BJP leader Nitin Gadkari filed a defamation case against Arvind Kejriwal, who has resigned as Delhi chief minister, in a court here on Tuesday and said that Kejriwal has tarnished his image by

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Kejriwal has lost his way, says Ramdev

Politics | Feb 01, 2014, 05:11 PM IST

Jammu: Hitting out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for calling leaders corrupt “without any proof”, yoga guru Ramdev today said the Aam Aadmi Party leader who had set out to cleanse the system has

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AAP slams Nitin Gadkari on 'secret deal' with Congress

Politics | Dec 29, 2013, 12:58 PM IST

Bhopal: Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas has criticized BJP leader Nitin Gadkari for alleging that a big industrialist had brought about a secret deal between AAP and Congress, to prevent the BJP from forming

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Nitin Gadkari: Big industrialist brokered deal between AAP, Congress to stop BJP

Politics | Dec 28, 2013, 10:31 PM IST

New Delhi: BJP leader Nitin Gadkari today alleged a deal was brokered between Aam Aadmi Party and Congress by a reputed industrialist in a hotel to “stop BJP at any cost” from coming to power

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Sinha disagrees with Gadkari's views on income tax abolition

Politics | Dec 18, 2013, 11:03 PM IST

New Delhi: Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha today disagreed with his party's former president Nitin Gadkari's views on abolition of income and other taxes, saying it would amount to going back to Vedic days.“We will

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No rift in Delhi BJP, says Gadkari

Politics | Oct 21, 2013, 05:46 PM IST

New Delhi: Amid reports of differences in Delhi BJP over chief ministerial candidate, party in-charge of Delhi polls Nitin Gadkari today accused media of showing “false news” and said there is no rift among leaders.

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No rift in Delhi BJP, says Gadkari

India | Oct 21, 2013, 07:01 AM IST

New Delhi: Amid reports of differences in Delhi BJP over chief ministerial candidate, party in-charge of Delhi polls Nitin Gadkari yesterday accused media of showing "false news" and said there is no rift among leaders.During

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