"I have sold tea at the railway station and in running trains ...Those selling tea in trains know more about railways than the minister," Modi had said at a rally in Patna.
When he was six years old, Modi helped his father sell tea to passengers whenever an odd train came into the small Vadnagar station in Gujarat, according to a book titled The anatomy of Narendra Modi--the man and his politics authored by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
Reacting to his statement Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, "Modi has a lot of negatives but his humble origins are a positive some of us can't claim. We aren't helping our campaign by mocking him."
