Gadkari was also given unsolicited advice about what to wear: His colleagues said, you are addressing your first national press conference, you should be wearing a kurta pyjama. But Gadkari was firm. “I did not want to appear different from what I was so I am before you like this,” he said, clad in a polo-neck pullover and trousers.
The aberration was a tweed jacket, which he said he borrowed from a friend because of the cold. “I will have to get new clothes made. I am not used to Delhi,” he quipped.
