Former AAP member Mayank Gandhi @mayankgandhi on Kejriwal's apology to Nitin Gadkari: Kejriwal should first apologize to @anjali_damania for using her info to make allegations against Gadkari and then make abject surrender. Am sure Anjali will continue to fight against corrupt."

Former AAP convenor and RTI activist Anjali Damania had accused Gadkari of going soft on the NCP by not taking a stand on the irrigation scam exposed in Maharashtra because of his business relationship with its chief Sharad Pawar.

Damania claimed that she met Gadkari to request him to pursue such cases in public interest but the BJP president put her off. She said that Gadkari told her not to push hard to expose the scam.

The activist was one of the two whistleblowers who dug out the scam after her farmland, that was with her for more than a decade, was taken over for an irrigation project.

Gadkari, however, said he has never met Damania. The BJP also rejected any link between Gadkari and Pawar.