Don't call me 'His Excellency': Rajya Sabha Chair to MPs
Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu has urged MPs to not address him as 'His Excellency', adding that the term embarrasses him. He suggested parliamentarians to instead call him 'Honourable Chairman' or 'Vice President'. Last year, he had advised MPs to discard the colonial tradition of using the phrase "I beg to" while laying papers on the table.