BNITIMES.COM /Bureau News / Editor Vishal Sharma / 16 May 7:01 PM
Union Minister for Road and Transport Nitin Gadkari received a death threat via phone call at his Delhi residence on Monday. The office of the minister informed about the death threat to the Delhi Police and the matter is under investigation, the sources said on Tuesday.
Delhi Police said that it received information about the death threat calls from the staff of the minister and the details are currently being verified.
This is the second time this year, that Nitin Gadkari received death threat calls in his office. Earlier in January, his residence and office in Maharashtra received such calls and the Nagpur police said that the caller has been identified as a man who is imprisoned in Belagavi in Karnataka.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari was being threatened from jail. The caller is a notorious gangster and murder accused Jayesh Kantha, who is imprisoned in Belagavi jail. He threatened Gadkari’s office by using the phone illegally inside the jail,” Nagpur police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said.
Nitin Gadkari is known for his transformational work in India’s road infrastructure and also has a reputation for being a humble politician. On Monday, while addressing a program on the death anniversary of former vice president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, the minister said that the elections are won on ‘politics of service’ rather than on ‘posters and banners’.
“Now I have decided that in the next election, I will not put up any poster or banner, I will not offer tea to anyone or do anything else. Those who want to vote for me will do so and those who don’t want to, will not,” he said.
