Nitin Gadkari retains Road Transport and Highways Ministry for third time; Ajay Tamta and Harsh Malhotra to be MoS

A day after taking oath, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is set to retain Road Transport and Highways Ministry for the third time. Ajay Tamta and Harsh Malhotra will be Minister of State of the said ministry.The 67-year-old leader from Nagpur in Maharashtra has been the longest serving Minister for Road Transport and Highways as he held the portfolio in the last two governments led by Narendra Modi. Gadkari is credited with the construction of more than 90,000 km of national highways and 30,000 km of new roads in the country in the last 10 years.

Since 2014, when Gadkari made his debut in the Lok Sabha polls from Nagpur and became a minister at the Centre, he has handled several portfolios like the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.

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