Most Incumbent Govts Lost Post-COVID Elections? Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Fact-Checks Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday took to X, to correct Mark Zuckerberg on his claim that most governments lost elections after the COVID-19 pandemic, including India.

Vaishnaw stated, "As the world's largest democracy, India conducted the 2024 elections with over 640 million voters. People of India reaffirmed their trust in NDA led by PM @narendramodi Ji’s leadership. Mr. Zuckerberg’s claim that most incumbent governments, including India in 2024 elections, lost post-COVID is factually incorrect."

"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," the minister posted.

Vaishnaw also added that it was disappointing to see misinformation from Mr. Zuckerberg himself and urged his followers to uphold facts and credibility.

Zuckerberg had recently made this statement regarding India's 2024 general elections at Joe Rogan's podcast, as he discussed worldwide governmental trust-issues post-COVID.

"2024 was a big election year around the world and all these countries, India, had elections. The incumbents 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 dealt with covid. It seems to have had this effect that's global," he said at the podcast.