Venkaiah Naidu said that BJP gave him everything except for the post of a Prime Minister
Venkaiah Naidu never wanted to become Vice President
"My dear friends I must tell you the truth...I never wanted to become VP...," he said at the launch of a book on his two-year term in office titled "Listening, Learning & Leading."
The Vice President said that he had expressed his interest to the Prime Minister that he wanted to quit the government in his second term and follow Nanaji Deshmukh. "I was planning on that ground...I was enjoying that I will be doing that... But this did not happen," Naidu said.
He also stated that he even suggested some names for the VP post. "After a party parliamentary board meeting, Amit Bhai (the then BJP President) said everyone in the party thought I will be the most suitable man. I never expected that. I was in tears, not because I was losing the ministership, which I anyway was going to leave."
(with inputs from PTI)
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