Nitin Gadkari says ‘not in race to be prime minister, Narendra Modi would be PM in 2019 too’ 

Nitin Gadkari.

Refuting speculations that he is in the race for the prime minister’s post, Union minister Nitin Gadkari, on Sunday, said the ruling BJP will win more seats than it had won in the 2014 Lok Sabha election and Narendra Modi will lead as prime minister. 

While responding a query by a reporter, Gadkari said, “I have said it earlier also that I am not a prime-ministerial candidate.”

Asserting that development was the only agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the ongoing general election, he said, “We are fighting the polls to make the country a super economic power” and listed the works carried out by the Modi government.

Gadkari argued that what the Congress could not able to do in 50 years, the BJP had done in five years.

Describing Hindutva as a way of life, he said the term does not mean the Hindu religion.

“For us, Hindutva is nationalism,” he said while answering a question.

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