A stream of invectives were constantly being hurled at him despite the fact that his over two-and-a-half-year-old political career was spotlessly clean, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The inner pain in the voice of PM Modi is so palpable in the short video doing rounds on social media.
I have served as the Chief Minister of Gujrat for 13/14 years and then PM of the biggest democracy in the world. This long journey of 23 years has been without a blot, yet he was being abused by people.
Without reacting to such denigrating language being used against him he was quietly bearing with it without speaking a word, says the prime minister in an emotion-choked voice.
Although all this was not a compulsion, yet what bigger proof of a democracy can there be other than this, asks the PM.