Prime Minister? Spare Me...
Union minister for road transport, highways and shipping Nitin Gadkari is in the news for publicly questioning his government and the party leadership. But if there’s one thing Gadkari would like to keep a distance from it is the growing chatter suggesting his eligibility as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. Gadkari was in Mumbai recently for the wedding of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray’s son and inexplicably cancelled a scheduled meeting with the Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray. No reasons were given, but there is speculation this was prompted by a Mumbai daily quoting Sena leader Sanjay Raut as saying that Gadkari as prime minister was acceptable to his party. Raut clarified he had been misquoted, but the damage had already been done. Gadkari was not going to add a photograph to the caption.