Ashwini Vaishnaw fact-checks Mark Zuckerberg on Lok Sabha poll results claim

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 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 incumbents 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 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 - seems to have had this global effect...There was a broad decrease in trust in incumbents and maybe in these sorts of democratic institutions overall," Zuckerberg told Rogan in a recent podcast.

Reacting to the remark, the union minister clarified that the people of India reaffirmed their trust in the Modi-led NDA.