Nitin Gadkari will continue to handle the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways along with the additional responsibility of handling the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) ministry.

Seen by many as the most successful minister in the last cabinet, Gadkari has been credited for the smooth progress in the development of various infrastructure facilities in the country. The Nagpur 'strongman’ was BJP chief from 2009-2013 and represents Nagpur in the parliament. In the recent polls, Gadkari defeated his nearest Congress rival and BJP rebel Nana Patole by a margin of over 2 lakh votes. It was only the second time Gadkari contested the Lok Sabha elections. It was in 2014 that he contested Lok Sabha polls for the first time and won from Nagpur.

Gadkari started as a student activist for the Akhil Bharatiya Vidya Parishad (ABVP) in 1976 and later became the president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha when he was just 24-years-old.

In 1992, he won the Nagpur Municipal Corporation cementing his political credentials as a member of the BJP. He later joined the Maharashtra cabinet as the minister for public works.

At the age of 42, he became the leader of the opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Council.

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