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Narendra Modi swearing-in ceremony: Nitin Gadkari sworn in as union minister

Updated : May 30, 2019 07:49 PM IST

In the recently concluded 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Nitin Gadkari defeated his nearest Congress rival and BJP rebel Nana Patole by a margin of over 2 lakh votes.

Nitin Gadkari was BJP chief from 2009-2013.

Gadkari started as a student activist for the Akhil Bharatiya Vidya Parishad (ABVP) in 1976.

Narendra Modi swearing-in ceremony: Nitin Gadkari sworn in as union minister

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nitin Gadkari on Thursday took oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government.

The Nagpur 'strongman’ is expected to receive a key ministerial portfolio given his outstanding record as the union minister for road transport and highways in the previous Modi cabinet.

Gadkari was BJP chief from 2009-2013. The Lok Sabha MP from the Nagpur parliamentary constituency, Gadkari held the portfolios for shipping and water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation in the centre.

In the recently concluded 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Gadkari defeated his nearest Congress rival and BJP rebel Nana Patole by a margin of over 2 lakh votes. It was only the second time Gadkari contested the Lok Sabha elections. It was in 2014 that he contested Lok Sabha polls for the first time and won from Nagpur.

Gadkari started as a student activist for the Akhil Bharatiya Vidya Parishad (ABVP) in 1976 and later became the president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha when he was just 24-years-old.

In 1992, he won the Nagpur Municipal Corporation cementing his political credentials as a member of the BJP. He later joined the Maharashtra cabinet as the minister for public works.

At the age of 42, he became the leader of the opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Council.

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