L K ADVANI DESERVES TO BE PRESIDENT – NITIN GADKARI

New Delhi: Union Minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari has said party patriarch L K ADVANI deserves to be the President of India, a post commensurate with his stature.

Appearing on a TV show, the Union road minister 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 the channel. “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.

Courtesy:Agencies (PTI)