L K Advani deserves to be President, says Nitin Gadkari

New Delhi: Union Minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari has said that party patriarch L.K. Advani deserves to be the President of India, a post commensurate with his stature. Union Road Transport Minister in a TV interview said it would not have been proper had Mr Advani been made the Lok Sabha Speaker as the party veteran has already been the deputy Prime Minister during the previous NDA regime.

“Mr Advani was the deputy PM and it would not have been proper had he been made the Speaker. He deserves to become the nation’s President,” Mr Gadkari said, according to a press release issued by the channel. “All of us respect Advaniji and we want that he should get a post commensurate with his stature,” he said.