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, Nov 20: The campaign for the resignation of beleagured BJP president Nitin Gadkari today got fresh ammunition with senior leader Yashwant Sinha demanding that he steps down immediately."Whether our party president is guilty
New Delhi, Nov 14: The BJP Wednesday strongly backed its president Nitin Gadkari, saying there was "nothing wrong" with the investment pattern in the Purti group of companies he had floated.The support to the beleaguered
New Delhi, Nov 14: Financial analyst S. Gurumurthy, who is considered close to the RSS, has reaffirmed that he found no wrongdoing by BJP president Nitin Gadkari in documents related to a company linked to
New Delhi, Nov 13: The BJP's internal-rift over party chief Nitin Gadkari's business dealings continued Tuesday with RSS ideologue S. Gurumurthy's varying versions on giving him a clean chit and the party avoiding the issue.The
New Delhi, Nov 10 : BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Saturday faced a fresh attack with party national executive member Jagadish Shettigar, demanding that he should step down from the top post in the wake
New Delhi, Nov 8: BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani, who has been demanding Nitin Gadkari's resignation as party president over allegations of dubious funds by his company Purti Sugar and Power, on Thursday said
New Delhi, Nov 8: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today ridiculed BJP for giving a clean chit to its president Nitin Gadkari after an internal examination of his business accounts by RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy wondering
New Delhi, Nov 8: Nitin Gadkari today met L K Advani, who is apparently unhappy over the BJP President's continuance in his post, to wish him on his birthday.Gadkari met Advani at his residence. The
New Delhi, Nov 7: BJP's Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani, who has demanded the resignation of Nitin Gadkari over “dubious” funding of his company, today said he will carry on his fight against the BJP
New Delhi, Nov 6: The BJP Tuesday came out in support of beleaguered party chief Nitin Gadkari, who faces allegations of financial impropriety in his business dealings, saying a probe had shown that he had
New Delhi, Nov 6: Stepping up further pressure, Ram Jethmalani today demanded the immediate resignation of BJP President Nitin Gadkari and claimed three other senior leaders including Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha were with him
Bhopal/New Delhi, Nov 5: Hoping to stave off another controversy, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari Monday denied he had compared the intelligence quotient (IQ) level of Swami Vivekananda to that of fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim.Cornered by
Chennai, Nov 2: Seeking to distance itself from the controversy over business dealings of BJP President Nitin Gadkari, RSS today said the law should take its own course and it does not have a soft
Mumbai, Oct 31: Trashing accusations of money laundering and corruption against him, a combative BJP chief Nitin Gadkari today said he was ready to face a probe but asked why the Congress was reluctant to
Nagpur, Oct 30: BJP president Nitin Gadkari Monday termed the corruption charges levelled against him "a conspiracy by the Congress" and also blamed the media for acting as that party's "agents". Gadkari, who arrived here
Nagpur, Oct 29: Back home after securing endorsement from his party, a combative BJP chief Nitin Gadkari today threatened to file civil and criminal cases against media houses “defaming” him as part of a “conspiracy”
Sundernagar (HP), Oct 25: Refusing to be on the back foot over allegations against its president Nitin Gadkari, BJP today suggested that he was being framed as Congress was facing serious charges of corruption.Launching a
Mumbai/New Delhi, Oct 25: BJP president Nitin Gadkari faced more heat today over allegations of dubious funding into his companies with Income Tax department too launching a probe to trace the source of funds after
New Delhi, Oct 24: Congress today took at dig at L K Advani for backing his party chief Nitin Gadkari in the face of allegations of dubious funding of his companies, saying it reflected BJP's
New Delhi, Oct 24: The Congress Wednesday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to answer the charges of corruption hurled at its chief Nitin Gadkari instead of defending him."It a serious matter. The BJP should
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