Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that he never wanted this position. Instead, he wanted to follow the footsteps of late Nanaji Deshmukh, the leader and social activist of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, to do creative work like him.

Venkaiah Naidu said, "When I was named for the post of Vice President, I got emotional, tears came in my eyes." The reason was simple that from the next day neither I could go to the BJP office nor talk to the party workers. '

Naidu said at the launch of his book 'Listening, Learning and Leading' based on his two-year tenure as Vice President, 'My dear friends, I never wanted to be Vice President, to be honest with you. He said that he had expressed his wish to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that in his second term he wanted to step down from the government, follow in the footsteps of Nanaji Deshmukh and do constructive work. "Naidu said," I want him Was planning … I was glad that I would do that … but it was not done. '

He further said, "All I got from the party is not just the post of Prime Minister because I was not suitable for him. I know my potential. "He said that he had suggested many names for the post of Vice President. After the parliamentary board meeting, Amit Shah (brother) told me, 'Everyone in the party believes that I am the most suitable person'.