This is not the first time such tall claims have been made by the PM about his participation in political movements of the past.
In a recent visit to Dhaka, PM Narendra Modi claimed that he, too, participated in the Satyagraha for freedom of Bangladesh and was arrested for the same. This is not the first time such tall claims have been made by the PM about his participation in political movements of the past. In this episode of Itihaas ke Panne, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay talks about the historical inaccuracy of this claim, and the role India played in the Bangladesh freedom struggle.