Rajnath, Bhagwat attend Gadkari’s daughter’s wedding

NAGPUR: Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s daughter got married on Sunday in a ceremony attended by a host of dignitaries, including Central ministers Rajnath Singh and Venkaiah Naidu, BJP president Amit Shah, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Gadkari’s daughter Ketki, youngest of his three children, tied the knot with Aditya Kaskhedikar, who works with Facebook in the US.

Assam governor Banwarilal Purohit, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, MNS president Raj Thackeray, Union ministers Maneka Gandhi, Prakash Javadekar, Hansraj Ahir and Piyush Goyal, yoga guru Baba Ramdev and former aviation minister and senior NCP leader Praful Patel were among other VVIPs present on the occasion.

While Rajnath and Shah came on Sunday morning, Fadnavis and others landed on Saturday night. Thackeray, who arrived here on Sunday morning, drove to the RSS headquarters where he met Bhagwat. Their meeting lasted for about an hour.

What transpired between the two leaders is not known, but Sangh sources claimed it was a courtesy call by Thackeray, whose party is an ally in the BJPruled coalition at the Centre and Maharashtra. Maharashtra ministers Chandrakant Dada Patil, Subhash Deshmukh, Pankaja Munde, Girish Mahajan, Sadabhau Khotkar and Girish Deshmukh were also present on the occasion.

Gadkari has two sons — Nikhil and Sarang.