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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
New Delhi: Upset over not being projected as BJP's chief ministerial candidate for the Delhi Assembly polls, Vijay Goel today staked his claim for the position before the party's top leadership and indicated his opposition
Mumbai: NCP on Thursday sought to know the cost of the diamond necklace which former BJP president Nitin Gadkari recently presented to his party's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi. "When Modi was anointed BJP's PM
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other senior BJP leaders will address the party's rally here on September 29.Announcing this at the Delhi BJP's meeting here, state unit president Vijay Goel said, "It
New Delhi: Charging the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre with failure to improve the economy and provide good governance, BJP today said since the ruling party could not convince voters, it was trying to
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