Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi praised Union Minister Nitin Gadkari over his remark against caste discrimination. "I welcome his words, and I hope that his actions, his words are also endorsed by other people in his cabinet," she said. "A person isn't known by their caste, sect, religion, language or sex, but only by their qualities," Gadkari had stated.