Nitin Gadkari says ministers have right to break laws; ‘Bureaucrats just have to say yes’. Watch

Union minister Nitin Gadkari said if a law blocks the development of the poor, then that law has to be broken as Mahatma Gandhi said.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said laws can't come in the way of the welfare of the poor and if they come, the government has the right to break or circumvent the laws, as Mahatma Gandhi has also said. The government is not run by what the bureaucrats say, the minister said at an event of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in Nagpur.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari said no laws can come in the way of the welfare of the poor people. 

Recalling how he solved a problem in 1995 when Manohar Joshi was the chief miniser of Maharashtra, Gadkari said, "I always tell the bureaucrats that the government will not work according to what you say. You only have to say 'yes sir'. You have to implement whatever we the ministers are saying. The government will work according to us."

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"I know that no law comes in the way of the welfare of the poor. If such a law has to be broken even 10 times, we should not hesitate is what Mahatma gandhi said," Gadkari said.

In 1995, the Union minister said, thousands tribal children died due to malnutrition in Gadricholi and Melghat -- the villages had no roads and the forest laws were coming in the way of developing roads.

(With agency inputs)