Newly-elected BJP president Nitin Gadkari will not contest Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha elections for the next three years.

"I will not fight any Parliamentary election during my three year tenure as National BJP president", Gadkari told reporters in an informal chat in Nagpur.

"I have already made clear that my agenda will be politics of development", he said.

On future programmes, Gadkari said he would be addressing his first press conference on December 24 in Delhi and spell out the party policies.

Gadkari, presently a Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, said he would retain the same national executive which was headed by his immediate predecessor Rajnath Singh.

Earlier, Gadkari was accorded a grand welcome by workers and office bearers of BJP on his arrival for the first time after becoming the national party chief.

BJP state leader Kirit Somayya, Hansraj Aher, MP (Chandrapur) and a number of Vidarbha BJP legislators including Chainsukh Sancheti, Sudhakarrao Deshmukh, Davendra Phadanvis, Chandrashekhar Bawankule, City Mayor Maya Iwnate and former MP Banwarilal Purohit were present at the airport to receive him.