Leaders who don’t deliver get beaten up, says Nitin Gadkari

Mumbai: Union minister Nitin Gadkari Sunday said political leaders w-ho sell dre-ams to people, but fail to make them a reality get “beaten up” by the public.

The minister, who handles a host of infrastructure-related portfolios in the Modi government, asserted he is a doer and delivers on his promises. “People like (political) leaders who sell them dreams. But if these dreams are not realised, then they beat them up (politically) as well,” Mr Gadkari said, speaking at a function here. “I am not the one who only sells dreams, but I deliver 100 per cent what I talk about,” he said.

Mr Gadkari also spoke about his stint as the state’s PWD minister when the Shiv Sena-BJP government was in power (1995-99). “Media-persons in Mumbai know what kind of a person I am as they have seen how I complete projects. They do trust me,” he said.