Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he delivers a speech during an election rally ahead of Phase VI of India's general election in Allahabad on May 9, 2019. (Photo by SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP)
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been roundly mocked for suggesting that radars are affected by clouds and boasting that he sent an email attachment years before the technology to do so was invented.
Modi, who is currently fighting to retain his premiership in a marathon election, claimed in a weekend television interview that he ordered air strikes on Pakistan in February because cloud cover would stop radar detection of Indian fighter jets.
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