India, July 13 -- Ujjwal Deorao Nikam, who served as public prosecutor on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case, had an interesting and warm conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi just hours before being nominated to the Rajya Sabha by President Droupadi Murmu.

It was PM Modi who dialed Nikam on Saturday and was the first person to tell him that he will be nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the President, he told news agency ANI. He added that PM Modi spoke to him in Marathi.

"Yesterday, PM Modi called to inform me about the nomination. He asked whether he should speak in Hindi or Marathi--both of us laughed. Then he spoke to me in Marathi and told me that the President wanted to assign me a responsibility, and he informed me of her...