DHAKA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that he had gone to jail while protesting for the freedom of Bangladesh.
The PM, who is in Dhaka, attended the National Day program there and handed over the Gandhi Peace Prize 2020 to Bangladesh's father of nation Sheikh Mujibur Rehman's younger daughter.

During the function, Modi stated that one of the first movements of his life was to join the struggle for the independence of Bangladesh.
"I must have been 20-22 years old when I and many of my colleagues had done Satyagraha for the freedom of the people of Bangladesh.
I even had the opportunity to go to jail during this satyagraha for Bangladesh's struggle for freedom," PM Modi said.
On Monday, India announced that Bangladesh's father of the nation Rahman for the Gandhi Peace Prize.