prime minister narendra modi unexpectedly showered praise on union transport minister nitin gadkari for outstanding performance known for taking his cabinet colleagues to task for dismal performances modi observed that ambitious projects which were gathering dust for well over a decade were completed by gadkari in a brief span of 15 months in corridors of power it is believed that gadkari has indeed taken the otherwise insignificant departments of transport and shipping by storm and has made the entire bureaucracy more accountable an administrator par excellence gadkari has set a target of constructing 15km road per day and reviews it on a daily basis to ensure clean and transparent administration gadkari has set a new system so that there is no scope of charges of corruption or irregularities against him each and every proposal irrespective of the cost is personally brought to the notice of the pm and is later submitted before the cabinet for approval now the gadkari effect is seen all over as most cabinet members are following him particularly when it comes to approval of new projectsbetter late than neverits never too late after a prolonged delay of well over a year chief minister devendra fadnavis appointed veteran lawyer and activist shrihari aney as the new advocate general soon after fadnavis took over the reins of the state in october last year then advocate general darius khambata had personally called on the cm to submit his resignation after interacting with a section of members of the judiciary and legal luminaries fadnavis had shortlisted names of three leading lawyers all from nagpur then aney was the top contender followed by sunil manohar son of former advocate general v r manohar a few bureaucrats did tell the cm that while there was no dispute on the eminence and legal standing of sunil manohar he may not like to shift to mumbai for extremely personal reasons despite such observations fadnavis appointed manohar as the new advocate general after six months manohar quit the prestigious post for personal reasons fadnavis had decided not to appoint a new ag and instead ask the additional solicitor general to hold additional charge for a year but he had to reconsider his decision in view of a pil in the high court ever since he entered the legal profession aney had taken up the cause of separate vidarbha now the moot question is after assuming a government role will he continue to support the agitationdinner datea week after the massive success of ncps jail bharo agitation against the devendra fadnavisled bjp government ncp president sharad pawars dinner meeting with highprofile bjp leader and finance minister arun jaitley has stunned not only party workers but also senior leaders pawar had told mediapersons that an estimated 6 lakh party activists and farmers had participated in the agitation against the bjp government for its failure to tackle the worstever agrarian crisis and had threatened to intensify the agitation if immediate measures were not taken for the cause of