Birthday Special:  this Minister is one of Star performer of Modi cabinet
Birthday Special: this Minister is one of Star performer of Modi cabinet
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Nitin Jairam Gadkari was born on 27 May 1957. He is an Indian Politician and the current Transport minister under the BJP central cabinet in the 16th Lok Sabha. He worked for the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and student union Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.

 He is married to Kanchan Gadkari and they have three children, Nikhil, Sarang and Ketki. His eldest son Nikhil is married to Rutuja Pathak and Sarang Gadkari is married to Madhura Rodi.

In 2009, Mr.Gadkari was appointed to head BJP after the party suffered a defeat in the general elections that year. Mr Gadkari constructed a series of roads, highways and flyovers across the state including the Yashwantrao Chavan Mumbai-Pune Expressway. He is one of those ministers who is considered as the star performer of Modi Cabinet.

From 1995 to 1999, Nitin Gadkari served as the minister of Public Works Department (PWD) and restructured it from top to bottom. He was appointed as the Chairman of National Rural Road Development Committee by the Union Government.

Before the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly Elections, The Election Commission on 6 October 2014 issued a notice to Gadkari for “statements to the effect of including the voters to take a bribe”. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Gadkari defeated Congress leader Vilas Muttemwar by a margin of 285,000.

Gadkari strongly supported privatization while he campaigned for investments in infrastructure from private firms. He retained his seat in 2019, defeating Nana Patole of Congress.

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