Nagpur: Newly elected BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said he would not contest Parliamentary elections during his tenure as the party chief.
"I will not fight any Parliamentary election during my three-year tenure as National BJP president. I have already made clear that my agenda will be politics of development," Gadkari told reporters in an informal chat here.
On future programmes, Gadkari said he would address a
press conference on December 24 in Delhi to spell out the
party's policies.
Gadkari, presently a member of Maharashtra Legislative
Council, said he would retain the same national executive that
was headed by his predecessor Rajnath Singh.
Earlier, Gadkari was accorded a grand welcome by party
workers and office bearers on his arrival to the city after
becoming the BJP chief.
BJP state leader Kirit Somayya, Hansraj Aher, MP
(Chandrapur) and a number of Vidarbha BJP legislators
including Chainsukh Sancheti, Sudhakarrao Deshmukh, Davendra
Phadanvis, Chandrashekhar Bawankule, City Mayor Maya Iwnate
and former MP Banwarilal Purohit were present at the airport
to receive him.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 22:46