The video was shared here on Twitter on December 20, 2022. It has been viewed more than 190,000 times.
A Hindi-language caption with the video says: "The one who used to say he is the son of a Pathan, today his party is protesting against the film 'Pathaan'."
The video shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a podium, saying in Hindi: "I am the son of a Pathan. I speak the truth, I follow the path of truth."
Pathan is a term that refers to the majority Muslim Pashtun ethnolinguistic group.
The video was shared in posts making fun of Hindu nationalist groups and members of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who had called for a boycott of the film "Pathaan" for alleged anti-Hindu content. The posts accused them of hypocrisy after Modi purportedly described himself using a phrase seen as sympathetic to Muslims.
"Pathaan" star Shah Rukh Khan, who identifies as Muslim, has been targeted by misinformation on earlier occasions as seen here, here and here.
Screenshot of Tweet shared with misleading claim taken on January 3, 2023
Some social media users appeared to have believed the false claim.
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