Narendra Modi's 11 mistakes during the campaigning

 16 Sep 2025

Facts: Actually, only 17 leaders have been sworn in 26 times as chief minister of the state since 1960. In the same time span, 14 people have been sworn in as chief minister of Gujarat 27 times.1. Maharashtra has had 26 chief ministers since 1960.

Facts: These are the elections for the 16th Lok Sabha. Modi corrected himself after the mistake was pointed out by someone sitting behind him on the stage.

Facts: The Rupee was tied to the Pound and not the Dollar and was at about 30 cents a rupee.

Modi described Shyama Prasad Mookherjee as a "proud son of Gujarat." Modi credited Mookherjee with setting up the radical "India House in London under the very noses of the English." "He was considered the Guru of the Indian revolutionaries," he said. "He died in 1930, but before he did so, he expressed the wish that his ashes be kept carefully so they could be returned to a free India."

Facts: Mookherjee was born in Kolkata and not in Gujarat. He died in 1953 and not in 1930 in India and was cremated in West Bengal.

Modi's reference was in fact to Shyamaji Krishna Verma, a Sanskrit scholar and nationalist who was borin Mandvi city, Gujarat, on October 4, 1857. He went on to become the first non-Brahmin to be given the honorific 'Pandit' by the Kashi pandits. It was Verma who founded the India House in London which soon became an incubator for such revolutionaries as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Bhikaji Cama, Virendranath Chattopadhyaya and Lala Hardayal.