New Delhi, July 02: A day after stating that party president M Venkaiah Naidu will not accept any further responsibility after victory in the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, BJP today said it did not mean that he would step down from the post and accused the media of "misinterpretation”. "The statement did not mean that Naidu would step down from the post after the accomplishment of Mission 2004 of securing majority in the Lok Sabha polls. What he meant was that it was a goal to be achieved," party spokesmen Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Prakash Javdekar told reporters here.
They said that Naidu stating that he would give up the responsibility after Mission 2004 is achieved did not in anyway mean that he would relinquish office.
They indicated that Naidu is likely to get the post after organisational elections are completed by November this year as he is currently ad hoc president.
"He (president) is totally contended and committed to seeing the party returning to power with a comfortable majority on its own and the continuance of the NDA experiment," a party release said to mark Naidu's one year in office.
It quoted Naidu as stating that he was "everybody's president", and declaring that the president presides and the committee decides. Bureau Report