He loves electric cars, but the election affidavit shows that NItin Gadkari personally does not own an electric car!
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is one of those ministers who are constantly pushing and promoting electric cars and alternative fuel options to reduce pollution. We also drove it around in electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell cars. The Union Transport Minister has now filed an affidavit for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Surprisingly, the Minister of Transport does not own any electric vehicles. According to the affidavit, the minister owns a 2016 Honda CR-V, an Isuzu D-Max and a 1994 HM Ambassador model.
What cars does he own?
According to the affidavit, Nitin Gadkari owns an HM Ambassador sedan worth Rs 10,000, a Honda CR-V worth Rs 16.75 lakh and an Isuzu D-Max pickup worth Rs 12.55 lakh. The D-Max was added to the minister’s garage in 2024.
Furthermore, Nitin Gadkari also mentioned that his wife, Kanchan Nitin Gadkari, owns a 2014 Toyota Innova worth Rs 5.25 lakh, a Mahindra worth Rs 4.10 lakh and a commercial Tata Intra pickup truck worth of Rs 7.19 lakh.
However, we have never seen the minister traveling in one of these vehicles. It is very likely that the vehicles are for family use, while the minister himself uses official government vehicles and occasionally electric or hybrid vehicles for travel.
Nitin Gadkari’s cool rides
We saw him using a BMW iX electric luxury SUV. The electric SUV with registration number MH31 FU 8181 is actually registered under the name of Nagpur-based CIAN Agro Industries. Nitin Gadkari, currently Union Minister for Transport and Highways, is also the managing director of the company. It is not clear whether the minister actually bought it under the company’s name or whether the company actually bought it for its own use.
Furthermore, we also saw him driving a hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai car. He drove to Parliament a few times in this car. This car also does not belong to him as it was imported by Toyota Kirloskar and is registered in their name. We also saw him in a video introducing an Innova Hycross in which he told that this car uses Flex Fuel and is also the powerful hybrid version.
Nitin Gadkari recently announced in an interview that he wants to completely ban petrol and diesel cars from the country. Note that he expressed a desire and it’s not exactly a threat to ban them – these statements are often misinterpreted by the automotive media.
He wants people to use electric and hydrogen cars, which are more environmentally friendly. Although he promised to completely phase out over 36 million gasoline and diesel vehicles, he did not give an exact timeline for when he would make that vision a reality.
He also made another announcement in an interview expressing his willingness to reduce GST on hybrid cars in India to boost sales. If his proposal is accepted, the prices of all hybrid cars in India could come down by up to Rs 5.5 lakhs!
Nitin Gadkari’s first vehicle he ever owned was a Luna. He spoke about his first vehicle during the launch of the electric version of Luna or Kinetic E-Luna. During the introduction, he even said that despite owning several vehicles, he still cares deeply for Luna. While the Minister fully encourages the use of electric cars and bicycles, it would have been a good example if the Minister himself had purchased electric cars under his name.
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