AMN / Vijayawada
NDA candidate for Vice Presidential post and former Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said that he felt emotional when he was told that he was chosen for Vice-President post.
Speaking after being felicitated by BJP and TDP leaders for being selected for Vice-President post at a programme here, he said “my eyes filled with tears when I was told that I was chosen.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Anantha Kumar consoled me and emboldened me.
I felt painful as I have to severe my relations with the BJP and activists, who have supported for several decades” he said.
Brushing aside reports appeared in a section of media that the BJP leadership, in order to check his political growth, offered him the Vice-President post, he said that he thought to retire from the active politics after Mr Narendra Modi-led BJP won for second term in 2019.