According to Union minister Nitin Gadkari, 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.
The Union Minister was speaking at an event of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in Nagpur on Tuesday.
Recalling how he solved a problem in 1995 when Manohar Joshi was the chief minister 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.”
“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 of 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.
