Who is Nitin Gadkari?Nitin Gadkari is the Union minister for road transport and highways as well as micro, small and medium enterprises in the second term of the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre. A day after being sworn in as a Cabinet minister on May 30, 2019, Gadkari was given charge of the road transport ministry, a portfolio he had held throughout the Modi government's first term (2014-2019) as well. Additionally, he was given charge of the MSME ministry.