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Democracy will be successful only when all the four pillars -- judiciary, executive, legislature and media -- follow ethics, Gadkari added
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Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said a political leader once offered to
support him if he were to enter the race for the Prime Minister's post, but he declined the offer stating he did not nurse such an
ambition.
The senior BJP leader was speaking at a journalism awards function in Maharashtra's Nagpur city on Saturday.
"I remember one
incident -- I would not name anyone -- that person said 'if you are going to become prime minister, we will support you'," Gadkari said,
without specifying when the conversation took place.
"But, I asked why you should support me, and why should I take your support? To
become the prime minister is not the aim in my life
I am loyal to my conviction and my organisation, and I am not going to compromise for any post because my conviction is foremost for me," he
senior CPI functionary, Gadkari said he told the communist leader that late A B Bardhan was among the tallest politicians from Nagpur and
Vidarbha.
When the leader expressed surprise saying Bardhan was an opponent of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Gadkari said honest
opposition should be respected.
"I said one should respect a person who opposes with honesty, because there is honesty in his
opposition...one who opposes with dishonesty deserves no respect," the BJP leader said.
Comrade Bardhan was faithful to his ideology, and
politics as well as journalism now lack such people, he said.
Democracy will be successful only when all the four pillars -- judiciary,
executive, legislature and media -- follow ethics, Gadkari added.(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the
Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)First Published: Sep 15 2024 | 8:40 AMIST
