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On Farah Khan’s Vlog, Nitin Gadkari Reveals Personal Routine and Hard-Edged Anecdotes

The episode shows a senior infrastructure minister using a celebrity YouTube platform to mix light banter with accounts of wielding administrative power.

Overview

  • Filmed at his New Delhi residence, the video features Gadkari showing a conference room with walls he said were painted with gobar and hosting Farah Khan and her cook, Dilip.
  • Gadkari said he exercises about two and a half hours each morning and has reduced his weight from 135 kg to 89 kg.
  • Dilip, who hails from Darbhanga in Bihar, asked the minister on camera to build a road in his village, prompting a smiling response and light exchange.
  • In one anecdote, Gadkari said he ordered the demolition of his father-in-law’s house for a road extension project and provided compensation instead of a new home.
  • He also recounted telling a Kolkata restaurant he could cancel its lease on Kolkata Port Trust land when he was shipping minister after staff declined to train his personal chef.