The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed that Union Road Transport, Highways and Shipping minister Nitin Gadkari has been entrusted with additional charge of the ministries of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation .
Gadkari has been asked to handle portfolios held by Gopinath Munde who had tragically died here yesterday due to a car crash. Munde was cremated with full state honours this afternoon in his ancestral village in Parli in Maharashtra's Beed district.
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Media reports say that Gadkari will hold these additional portfolios till the next expansion of the union council of ministers is held.