PM Modi claims he used digital camera, e-mail in 1988: What facts reveal

In a television interview, PM Modi said he clicked a colour photo of L K Advani in 1987-88 using a digital camera and then e-mailed it to him

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent television interview where he claimed to use a digital camera in 1987-88 to click a colour photo of L K Advani and then emailed the same has got social media up in arms..

“First time I used digital camera in 1987 or 1988… then a handful of people had email. At one of the public meetings of (LK) Advani ji in Gujarat’s Viramgam, I had a digital camera. I took a photo of Advani Ji and transmitted it to Delhi. He was surprised and said how did my colour photo appear today,” PM Modi