Witty one-liners by outgoing Vice President Venkaiah Naidu will leave you in splits

The term of Vice President Naidu ends on August 10 and his successor Jagdeep Dhankhar will take the oath the following day.

As Naidu departs from the office of the Vice President, here’s a look at some of his witty retorts in the past.

In 2017, a few weeks before his nomination as the Vice President, a few reporters asked Naidu if he was in the race to be the Rashtrapati of Up-rashtrapati. Naidu quickly replied he was happy being Ushapati or the husband of Usha, his wife.

In 2016, when Naidu was still a part of the Narendra Modi-led cabinet, he delivered a punchline about the former Manmohan Singh government, saying, “PM presides, Madam decides.”

Comparing the governance with that of the BJP, Naidu had said, “In the BJP, the President presides and the team decides.”

Another famous jibe at the Left parties by the former VP is, “Left can never be right.”

In 2018, while delivering the convocation address at Pune’s Dr D Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Naidu advised students who travel abroad for higher studies to “Go, learn, earn and return to the motherland.”

Naidu had once said about political parties that they work on a three-principle formula: “Election, selection and collection.”

He had once said about the Congress party's attitude that while the country was moving forward, “Congress is looking backward and their situation is awkward."

In his farewell speech at the Rajya Sabha, Naidu said, “I never aspired to be the president, will never become a dissident and will never be confined to the residence.”

To all the members of the Upper House, he said, “We are all working on our way, we are not enemies, we are rivals.”