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, Oct 24: BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, under fire for alleged wrongdoings in business dealings, Wednesday got backing from senior party leader L.K. Advani who congratulated him for "coming clean" in asking for a
Mumbai, Oct 24:Sudhakar Madke, a driver, and Suresh Atram, a peon, working in firms set up by BJP MP Ajay Sancheti, said to be close to party chief Nitin Gadkari, bought a flat each worth
New Delhi, Oct 23: Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh today wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding a probe into allegations of dubious funding of companies run by BJP president Nitin Gadkari.In his communication, Digvijay
New Delhi, Oct 23: The BJP Tuesday said "any competent authority" can probe allegations of corruption against its president Nitin Gadkari."The party president has said any competent authority can probe the charges," Bharatiya Janata Party
Mumbai, Oct 23 : BJP president Nitin Gadkari was embroiled in more controversy on Tuesday, as the Times of India published names of investor companies registered from a single slum in Andheri investing money in
New Delhi, Oct 20: Stepping up his attack against Arvind Kejriwal, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh posed a number of questions to him raising doubts about off-shore funding of his NGO and asking why he
New Delhi, Oct 19: Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal today revealed that BJP president Nitin Gadkari was crying when he rang up Anjali Damania to request her not to target him on Wednesday. Speaking to mediapersons
Lucknow, Oct 18: The best way to handle India Against Corruption (IAC) leader Arvind Kejriwal is to ignore him till he gets tired of repeating his charges and becomes silent, said Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam
New Delhi, Oct 18: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday offered the quit politics if charges of irregularities are proved against him.Speaking to Hindustan times, Gadkari invited Arvind Kejriwal to come to Maharashtra to see
New Delhi, Oct 17: Striking again at political morality, Arvind Kejriwal today targeted BJP President Nitin Gadkari, accusing him of receiving personal favours by getting around 100 acres of agriculture land in Maharashtra after the
New Delhi, Oct 17: BJP MP Ram Jethmalani has written a letter to party president Nitin Gadkari requesting him to consider about projecting Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the party's candidate for Prime Minister
New Delhi, Oct 17: The anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal, who is now wearing the hat of a politician as well, has promised to make some startling revelations today that could embarrass BJP chief Nitin Gadkari.Arvind
New Delhi, Oct 13: India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal's next target after Robert Vadra is BJP president Nitin Gadkari, says a media report. Kejriwal is going to reveal facts about Gadkari at a joint
Bhopal, Oct 11: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said Congress-led UPA government was worse than "dacoits of Madhya Pradesh". "The dacoits of Madhya Pradesh were better than the Congress-led government at the Centre...a Rs
New Delhi, Oct 4: BJP president Nitin Gadkari Thursday faced controversy over a letter he had written to union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal seeking payment to contractors in a water project in Vidarbha,
Mumbai, Oct 4: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said e-governance can check corruption and "red-tapism" to a considerable extent.Addressing BJP's national convention on 'e-governance for good governance' here, Gadkari said information technology (IT) should
New Delhi, Oct 2 : Even as the BJP is fiercely opposed to FDI in multi-brand retail, party president Nitin Gadkari Tuesday called for foreign funds in other areas and said the atmosphere should be
New Delhi, Oct 1 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Gadkari Monday filed a defamation case against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for dragging his name into alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks.Gadkari
Surajkund (Haryana), Sep 28: BJP Friday said it would go to the people to expose the government on the issue of coal block allocations, foreign equity in multibrand retail and capping the supply of subsidised
Noida, Sep 28: Activist Arvind Kejriwal today alleged that there were contradictions in BJP chief Nitin Gadkari's response to allegations by RTI activist Anjali Damania who claimed that he had refused to take on NCP
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