Prime Minister Narendra Modi and bright Nikam.
Mumbai: Renowned lawyer Ujjwal Nikam has been nominated by President Draupadi Murmu as a Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself gave this information to Nikam on the phone on Saturday. The special thing is that PM Modi spoke to Nikam in Marathi, which is his mother tongue. Nikam told that PM Modi’s call came at 8.30 am on Saturday morning. He said in Marathi, ‘Ujjwal ji, President wants to send you to the Rajya Sabha. Will you accept this responsibility? ‘ Nikam said that he was surprised to hear this news, because he did not know any such possibility.
‘It was refused to tell someone’
Nikam said that the PM had not asked him to tell this to anyone, but after reaching home, he told this good news to his wife Jyoti Nikam. Nikam said, ‘Prime Minister, please forgive me.’ Jyoti Nikam expressed happiness over this nomination and said, ‘I am very proud that Ujjwal has been given this responsibility. He will definitely fulfill the confidence that the Prime Minister has expressed on him. Nikam told that PM Modi spoke to him in Marathi. He said, ‘PM asked whether I should talk in Marathi or in Hindi. I started laughing, he also started laughing. I said, you have God on both languages, and both languages come well. ‘
‘Our unity is our strength’
Nikam insisted that the government has always given respect to the Marathi language and the PM loves it very much towards it. He said that Devendra Fadnavis has also said that Marathi is our identity, it is our mother tongue. Nikam also expressed his views on the linguistic and cultural diversity of the country. He said that in Karnataka I speak a little Kannada and Malayalam in Kerala. He said, ‘There are different languages and religions in our country. We should stay united. India’s democracy is unique in the world, and many people do not like it. We should be proud that our unity is our strength.
Nikam came into discussion with the 1993 bomb blast case
Ujjwal Nikam was known across the country for his strong lobbying as a special public prosecutor in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast case. He first came to Mumbai in 1993, when the then Police Commissioner M.N. Singh called him for this case. Nikam told that he did not even see the court of Mumbai at that time. The police held him at a guest house near Azad Maidan, but he was shifted to a good hotel in Fort due to the problem of mosquitoes there. He lived in Mumbai from 1993 to 2013 and served in several big cases including punishing Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab.
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