Updated On: 06 June, 2024 07:43 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
Cong leader revives talk of Gadkari as Sangh Parivar’s preferred alternative

Vijay Wadettiwar; (right) Nitin Gadkari. Pic/Satej Shinde
Opposition leader in Maharashtra Assembly Vijay Wadettiwar claimed that the RSS did not want Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to rule the country. He said a leader from Maharashtra (read Nitin Gadkari), who is an RSS-preferred alternative for the top position, was troubled time and again by the duo.
Addressing a media conference on Thursday, Wadettiwar said, “When the BJP leaders [party president J P Nadda] say that they don’t need the RSS, the RSS must also have thought that it does not need Modi and Shah. There was a buzz in the Nagpur RSS circles the other day over Modi’s overnight stay in Nagpur during the Lok Sabha poll campaign. Modi did not visit the RSS headquarters whereas his predecessors like Atal Behari Vajpayee had visited the headquarters.”