After Prime Minister Modi’s tweet comparing Punjan Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal with South Africa’s father of nation, Nelson Mandela, the Government of South Africa filed defamation case against Prime minister Narendra Modi in the International Court of Justice, Hague.

PM Modi said: “There is a special family about whom pages are written in history even if their fingernails break. Very few people know that Badal Saheb is Nelson Mandela of India, who has spent nearly two decades in jail only because of political differences.”