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: 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
New Delhi, Aug 8: BJP leader Nitin Gadkari, who is the poll in-charge of Delhi, Wednesday met the party councillors and asked them to reach out to maximum number of people ahead of assembly elections
Bhopal, Aug 2: Hitting out at Congress leaders for dubbing the 2008 Batla House encounter as fake despite the Delhi court verdict, former BJP President Nitin Gadkari today said that such remarks will dent the
Ahmedabad, Jul 22: Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari, who was recently named one of the members of the party's Election Campaign Committee for 2014 polls on Sunday called upon Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at
New Delhi, July 20: The BJP Friday announced that former party president Nitin Gadkari had been given the task of improving party's prospects for the forthcoming assembly polls in Delhi."BJP president Rajnath Singh has appointed
Nagpur, Jul 17: Former BJP national president Nitin Gadkari today met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at the Sangh headquarters here.However, what transpired during the meeting, which lasted for over an hour, is not known. Riding
Ranchi, June 22: Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari Saturday said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar seems to be dreaming of becoming the prime minister and indulging in vote bank politics."It seems that Nitish Kumar
New Delhi, Jun 10: BJP's seniormost leader Lal Krishna Advani has been disillusioned with the party since the last one year, when the then party president Nitin Gadkari was literally forced to quit and was
New Delhi, April 18: Former Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari Thursday denied he assured the Janata Dal United that Narendra Modi will not be projected as the party's prime ministerial candidate.The clarification came after
Nagpur, April 13: Former Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari Friday claimed that a "senior leader" of the UPA-II wanted his support to topple the Congress-led alliance government in New Delhi."The UPA leader who had
Nagpur, Apr 12: Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari has claimed that a "senior leader" had approached him to topple the Congress-led UPA-II government at the Centre.Though the "senior leader" got in touch with him during
Mumbai, Mar 13: Former BJP President Nitin Gadkari tonight met Raj Thackeray at the MNS chief's residence in Dadar area.It was a courtesy call by Gadkari, MNS sources said.The meeting comes in the backdrop of
Nagpur, Jan 30: Aam Aadmi Party has filed a complaint against former BJP president Nitin Gadkari for his remarks on I-T officials, police said today.A day after Rajnath Singh replaced him as BJP chief, “free
New Delhi, Jan 28: Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari denied he had threatened income tax authorities but insisted that the raids conducted on some companies allegedly associated with his Purti Group were a part of
Nagpur/Mumbai, Jan 25: Congress' Maharashtra unit has demanded a probe into the threats issued to Income Tax Officials by former BJP president Nitin Gadkari."The threats issued by Gadkari to the government servants doing their duty
Nagpur, Jan 24: A day after becoming a “free man”, Nitin Gadkari today held out a threat to Income Tax authorities, probing dubious fundings in the Purti group with which he was associated, saying nobody
New Delhi, Jan 23: Newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party chief Rajnath Singh Wednesday defended his predecessor Nitin Gadkari, saying the "baseless allegations" against him made him decide against opting for a second term."The circumstances in which
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