India stands for Integrated National Development Impacting All Indians: Venkaiah

Bengaluru: Staying true to his love for acronyms, Vice President elect M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that India stands for 'Integrated National Development Impacting All Indians'.

"India stands for: Integrated National Development Impacting All Indians, equally well. This is the mission for India," he said after being felicitated in Bengaluru for winning the vice-presidential poll.

Naidu had defeated the Opposition's nominee Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, by a wide margin in the August 5 election.

The vice president elect said he has the highest respect for Karnataka, for it had given him an opportunity to serve the country as a Rajya Sabha member for three terms.

He also spoke about Indian democracy's might of making a person from a farmer's family as vice president.

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Naidu said he would be very keen to make the Rajya Sabha proceedings meaningful in his capacity as its chairman.

He later left for Tirumala on a flight.