Childhood, setbacks, Godhra train fire: All that PM spoke about on podcast debut

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared in his debut podcast with Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, which was released on Friday. And look, in the country, I sometimes think, it is possible that what I think can also create controversy, when the freedom movement started, people from all sections of the society joined it, but not everyone came into politics, some people later dedicated their lives to education, some dedicated to Khadi, some dedicated to adult education, some got involved in such creative works for the welfare of the tribals. His deeds used to speak and this power made the whole country stand behind this person and that is why nowadays, the form of a politician is seen in the big professional category, he should be able to give flowery speeches, this works for a few days, people get applause, but ultimately it is deeds who does the work. I am a common man, when I will go, we had a big fight, I said I will give in writing that whatever happens is my responsibility, I will go by single engine helicopter and I reached Godhra, now that painful scene, so many dead bodies, you can imagine, I am also a human being, I also went through everything that was to happen but I knew that I am sitting on such a post that I have to keep my emotions, my natural tendency of humans out of all this, I have to stay above everything and I tried to handle myself by doing whatever I can. HOISTING TRICOLOUR FLAG IN SRINAGAR'S LAL CHOWK It is like this that when I went to hoist the tricolour flag in Srinagar's Lal Chowk, our procession was attacked near Bhagwara in Punjab, bullets were fired, many people were killed, five or six people were injured, so there was tension in the whole country about what would happen if we went to Srinagar Lal Chowk, it was very difficult to hoist the tricolour flag, the tricolour flag was burnt in Lal Chowk.