Ashwini Vaishnaw Counters Mark Zuckerberg’s Claim On PM Modi’s 2024 Win

Vaishnaw countered Mark Zuckerberg's claim that India's incumbent government lost the 2024 election, stating India reaffirmed trust in PM Modi's NDA leadership with 640 million voters

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Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday slammed Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg over his erroneous proclamations that India’s functionary party lost all major elections, saying it was disappointing to see the billionaire dispensing misinformation.

The Bharatiya Janata Party came victorious in the 2024 general election. Its leader, Narendra Modi, became the prime minister for the third consecutive time. The Meta CEO, however, told podcaster Joe Rogan that the ruling party in all the countries, including India, lost elections.

“2024 was a big election year around the world. All these countries, like India, had elections. The ruling party basically lost every single one. There is some sort of a global phenomenon—whether it was because of inflation or the economic policies to deal with Covid or just how the governments functioned during Covid—that seems to have had this global effect… There was a broad decline in trust in the ruling party and maybe in these sorts of democratic institutions overall,” Zuckerberg told Rogan in a recent podcast.

Reacting to these remarks, the union minister rectified that the people of India reaffirmed their trust in the Modi-led NDA to form a government at the central level.

Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a post on social media, wrote, “As the world’s largest democracy, India conducted the 2024 elections with over 640 million voters. The people of India reaffirmed their trust in the NDA led by PM Narendra Modi’s leadership. Mr. Zuckerberg’s claim that most incumbent governments, including India in the 2024 elections, lost post-COVID is factually incorrect.”

Glorifying the Modi government’s efforts during the pandemic, he asked the tech billionaire to maintain fact-checking and uphold credibility.

“From free food for 800 million, 2.2 billion free vaccines, and aid to nations worldwide during COVID to leading India as the fastest-growing major economy, PM Modi’s decisive 3rd-term victory is a testament to good governance and public trust. @Meta, it’s disappointing to see misinformation from Mr. Zuckerberg himself. Let’s uphold facts and credibility,” he wrote on X.

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