V-P Venkaiah Naidu at Safaigiri 2017 Awards: I have retired from politics, not from public life

Staying true to his knack for witticisms, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said "felicitation is to give inspiration to others" at the third edition of India Today Safaigiri Awards.

Venkaiah Naidu, who was in attendance at the Safaigiri Awards last year as a Union minister, said that earlier it was his duty to attend such events but now it is a matter of pleasure. "I have retired from politics but not tired from public life," Naidu said as the audience smiled.

In his keynote address, the Vice President also complimented Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making cleanliness a jan andolan or mass movement. "Narendra Modi said don't give it a government or political meaning, this has to be a people's movement," Naidu said.

The vice president then went ahead and felicitated the Safaigiri 2017 awardees.