Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “arrogant” when he met him to talk about the farmer protests.

Addressing a social function at Dadri in Haryana, Malik said, “when I went to meet the Prime Minister to discuss the farmer issue, I started fighting with him within five minutes. He was very arrogant. When I told him that 500 farmers had died, he said, ‘Did they die for me?’” Malik said as quoted by the Indian Express. He also said that the prime minister asked him to Amit Shah and so he did.