In an indirect reubuttal to outgoing Vice President Hamid Ansari’s statements on intolerance and the position of minorities in the country, Venkaiah Naidu who will officially be made the Vice President of India on Friday said the issue of minorities is being blown out of proportion. Video: ANI Music: Big Bang Fuzz
NDA’s vice presidential nominee Venkaiah Naidu addressed the media after filing his nomination papers in the Parliament. In his address, he said that he had resigned from the party and said, “Now, I do not belong any party.”
The NDA on Monday announced Union Minister of Information and Broadcast Minister Venkaiah Naidu as its Vice Presidential Nominee. The longtime BJP worker now faces the opposition’s nominee and former West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi.
“No individual has been given the right to kill people in the name of Gau Raksha,” stated Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu in an exclusive interview to The Quint’s Editorial Director Sanjay Pugalia.
In an exclusive interview
to The Quint, union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said that it is imperative for a
democratic country to have an opposition. Ridiculing rival party Congress, he said that the people had
taken a decision to not recognise the party as an opposition in the Parliament.
He further added that the party had managed to pocket only seven seats in UP,
despite having snagged an alliance with the Samajwadi Party. Stating that the BJP’s well-wishes will remain should the
opposition put up a united front, Naidu affirmed that such a situation is close
to impossible. Highlighting the politics in states without a BJP-led front,
Naidu said that the opposition parties will never agree for an alliance with
each other. “If it happens, it will be easier”, he said.
A day after 25 CRPF personnel were martyred in a Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, The Quint’s Editorial Director Sanjay Pugalia talked to Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu about the intensity of insurgency in the country. In a Facebook Live on Tuesday afternoon, Naidu spoke about the Naxal attack, cow vigilantism, and the culture of moral policing.
