Digvijay calls Gadkari ‘billionaire’

Bhopal, January 20: Congress leader Digvijay Singh today described BJP chief Nitin Gadkari as a ‘billionaire’ after latter allegedly made some derogatory remarks against him.

“I was Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister for 10 long years and Gadkari who has never won an election in his life was minister for only one term in Maharashtra,” he told PTI here.

Singh said that despite being in politics for a long time, he was still in Gadkari’s eyes a “petty leader” but for him the BJP chief was a “billionaire”.

The BJP chief had allegedly called Singh a petty leader at a recent function in Delhi.

The Congress general secretary, who recently made controversial statements against the RSS, said, “All my critics should understand that whatever I had said about the involvement of the members of the Sangh Pariwar has been proved to be correct.

–Agencies