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This deal was a series of actions designed to get ahead of Bangladesh. Jan Sangh's main goals were to promote war despite the lack of preparation and to sway public opinion against the Indo-Soviet Treaty, which it argued was a "betrayal of Bangladesh."

Digital Desk: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said it has no record of Modi's detention in response to a Right to Information request about the specifics of the incident, according to The Wire.

When visiting the National Martyrs' Memorial in Savar during Bangladesh's 50th anniversary of independence, Modi was quoted as saying: "When I, along with a few of my colleagues, participated in satyagraha in support of Bangladesh's fight for independence, I must have been between 20 and 22 years old. While assisting in the fight for Bangladesh's independence, I courted arrest and ended up in jail. "

At the time, numerous of Modi's opponents questioned the validity of his claim, sparking a discussion.

Shuddhabrata Sengupta detailed how Jan Sangh organized a "Recognize Bangladesh Satyagraha" action in Delhi from August 1–11, 1971. The movement culminated in a rally to oppose the India-USSR Treaty of Friendship, which had been signed three days earlier on August 9, 1971.

This deal was a series of actions designed to get ahead of Bangladesh. Jan Sangh's main goals were to promote war despite the lack of preparation and to sway public opinion against the Indo-Soviet Treaty, which it argued was a "betrayal of Bangladesh."

According to Sengupta, The Times of India had reported at the time that Vajpayee had declared that the Indo-Soviet treaty meant "a conspiracy between Delhi and Moscow to deny recognition to Bangladesh" when speaking at a sizable gathering in Delhi on August 12, 1971.

Sengupta authored: "It is this "Satyagraha" that Narendra Modi claims to have taken part in. He has previously discussed this during a previous trip to Bangladesh, when he went to accept the nation's highest civilian honour on behalf of the ailing Atal Behari Vaipayee (the award's citation also mentions the Jan Sangh Satyagraha of August 1971)."

Sengupta had stated that it was also being asserted that Modi had written this in the 1978 book Sangharshma Gujarat. Although the 2000 edition of the book (which is available as a PDF on Modi's website) mentions "imprisonment in Tihar Jail due to participation in Bangladesh Satyagraha" in passing as one of the then-young author's "achievements," native Gujarati speakers who have read it report that it makes no mention of this.

On March 27, 2021, Jayesh Gurnani submitted his Right to Information (RTI) application to the PMO in the middle of the controversy surrounding Modi's assertion.

He had said that the application was related to the Prime Minister's speech at Bangladesh's National Day programme, where he had asserted that he had the chance to serve time in prison when he was between 20 and 22 years old during the country's war for independence. As such, Gurnani sought information on five specific points.

The applicant requested certified copies of the following documents: the FIR filed at the relevant police station listing Modi as an accused party; the arrest memo or any other pertinent document on his arrest; the documents showing his release from jail; and the documents stating the name of the jail where he was kept.

However, the PMO was unable to give Gurnani a particular response. Only the following was mentioned: "The material as accessible on records may be obtained on the PMO website under the hyperlink "PM's Speeches"." The PMO further clarified that it "maintains official documents of Shri Narendra Modi since he assumed the position of Prime Minister of India in 2014."

The petitioner had made a first appeal to the First Appellate Authority (FAA)/Director in the PMO because he was dissatisfied with the response.

The latter answered on June 15, 2021, stating that the appellant had claimed that no information had been given to him in the appeal that was submitted on May 4, 2021. The Chief Public Information Officer (CPIO) of the PMO, according to the FAA, posted a response online on June 4, 2021; therefore, the appeal came first. As a result, he rejected the appeal and stated, "No further action is required on your appeal."

Gurnani then went to the Information Commission, where Chief Information Commissioner YK Sinha heard the case. On August 18, 2022, the Commission conducted a video conference hearing in this regard.

The appellant stated during the hearing that he had filed the complaint on the basis that there was a considered refusal to provide information since no reply had been sent within the allotted 30 days, according to Sinha's ruling in the case. The COVID-19 pandemic, according to the PMO's CPIO and Deputy Secretary (RTI), hindered the organization's ability to function administratively, which is why it took so long to respond to the RTI application and the initial appeal.

According to Sinha's order, the Commission was merely needed to determine whether the material had been withheld with malicious intent or for an arbitrary reason, which it was unable to do in the current situation. In light of this, he dismissed the appeal.

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