BJP chief Nitin Gadkari is believed to be on a soup-fluid diet these days. The recent gastric bypass surgery for which he went to Mumbai has forced Gadkari to follow this regime. The BJP chief went on a fluid diet one week before the surgery and is expected to follow a similar regime as he recuperates from it. As a party leader remarked in private, the strict diet-control regime for nearly a fortnight will take away a few kilos anyway.