Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan met Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, in Mumbai on Thursday. Gadkari has sought the support of Bachchan to champion the cause of the National Road Safety Mission in India. Nitin Gadkari's official Twitter handle shared the pictures of their meeting. "Union Minister
Shri @nitin_gadkari Ji called on Shri @SrBachchan Ji in Mumbai today," Office of Nitin Gadkari said in a tweet.
According to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highway, in India itself about eighty thousand people are killed in road crashes annually which is thirteen per cent of the total fatality all over the world.