Gadkari denies sidelining Sushma Swaraj

Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari on Sunday clarified that he did not sideline senior party leader Sushma Swaraj in his recent clarification regarding the rift within party members. Swaraj on Friday blamed fellow party functionary Arun Jaitley of having influenced the ministerial slots in BJP ruled Karnataka for the Reddy brothers, whose names have been linked to illegal mining and several other controversies of corruption.