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Nitin Gadkari is known to be the rare bold minister in the Narendra Modi-led government. Recently, however, he appeared to have gone a little too far. Speaking at the inauguration of a private Covid-19 care centre in his constituency, Nagpur, Gadkari sought to ring the alarm bells. “The [Covid] situation is very serious and no one knows how long it will last... What will happen in the next 15 days to one month it’s difficult to tell,” he said. He stressed on the need for long-term arrangements to battle the pandemic.
In February itself, the Bharatiya Janata Party had credited the prime minister for having defeated the coronavirus, and here Gadkari was conjuring a grim picture. Whispers in party corridors have it that Gadkari should have reposed faith in the leadership of the prime minister and expressed confidence that the coronavirus will once again be defeated. It is no secret within the party that Gadkari had nursed prime-ministerial ambitions in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. People close to him had hoped he would be more acceptable to allies than Modi if the BJP failed to get a majority on its own. Party leaders, however, are wondering why Gadkari was resorting to such digressions now when all such hopes stand shattered.

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