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Why Gadkari had the gall to speak up

His name is among the contenders for the top job in the event the BJP gets fewer seats in 2019. That might have something to do with him picking up the cudgels for Swaraj

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Aditi Phadnis
Roads and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari was one of only two senior leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party (the other was Home Minister Rajnath Singh) who spoke out in favour of Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj when supporters of her party attacked her following her intervention to transfer a passport issuing official who asked embarrassing and unrelated questions when a Hindu-Muslim couple applied for their passports. The officer asked questions about Tanvi Seth’s name on her nikahnama, why she had married Mohammad Anas Siddiqui and why her married name was not endorsed in her passport.

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