Gadkari on conversion: Parties indulging in vote bank politics

December 22, 2014 14:07

Amid a controversy over religious conversions, Union minister Nitin Gadkari today said that political forces "disturbed" over the victory of BJP are trying to convert the agenda of development into that of vote bank politics.

"This is not an issue within the party. There are some political forces and leaders, who are disturbed over the victory of BJP," he said outside Parliament House here.

"As far as vote bank politics is concerned, which is a very very general practice for them and development is not their agenda, they want to convert the agenda of development and good governance into vote bank politics," he said, replying to a question on the issue of religious conversions.

"It is vote bank politics and nothing else," the Union Transport Minister maintained.

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