Ashwini Vaishnaw takes on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his wrong information about the India general elections 2024, saying that he was disappointed and disheartened over such misinformation going viral. During an interaction with podcaster Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg had expressed that incumbent governments across all the big democracies, such as India, had lost polls after Covid.
They said there were big election years around the globe in 2024. All these countries, like India, had elections. The incumbents, in effect, threw almost all of them away. There is some sort of a global phenomenon — be it due to inflation, the economics of managing Covid, or just how the governments handled Covid. Zuckerberg said in the podcast that there appear to have been lower levels of trust – not only in those currently holding power but in democracy at large.
Not long ago, responding to Zuckerberg’s statement that India’s elections were difficult to follow, Vaishnaw corrected the record, stating that the 2024 general elections of India gave Narendra Modi-led BJP a historic third tenure in office. He underlined that the elections, which involved more than 640 million voters, strengthened the confidence of people in the political leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
India is the largest democracy in the world and recently held its 2024 elections with more than 640 million of its eligible voters. The people of India reposed their faith in the NDA, the leadership of PM Narendra Modi. Mr. Vaishnaw said that the statement made by Zuckerberg that most incumbent governments, such as India, have lost post-COVID is not true.
The minister also commended the Modi government’s measures during the pandemic to manage India’s economy when things were not easy. He urged Zuckerberg to return to facts instead of untruths and reminded leaders around the globe that they must be careful about how they comment on the democracy of other countries.
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