Advaniji deserves to become nation’s President:Gadkari

New Delhi, 21 June, 2014

Union minister and former BJP president Nitin Gadkari while appearing on a TV show ‘Aap ki Adalat’ said party patriarch L K Advani deserves to be the President of India, a post commensurate with his stature.

He said it would not have been proper had he (Advani) been made the Lok Sabha speaker as the party veteran has already been deputy prime minister.

“Advaniji was deputy prime minister and it would not have been proper had he been made the Speaker. Advaniji deserves to become the nation’s President,” Gadkari said, according to a press release issued by news channel India TV.

“All of us respect Advaniji and we want that he should get a post commensurate with his stature,” he said.

Gadkari said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken a conscious decision not to induct ministers above the age of 75 years due to which some senior party leaders like Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi did not find a place in the union cabinet.

Comparing the party seniors with Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan who cannot play the role of a hero now as the generation has changed, the former BJP president said even he may be replaced ten years from now to make way for new people.