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“Congratulations to @narendramodi on winning a third term as Prime Minister.”

Bill Gates, on X 9 June 2024 Post by @BillGates on X, 2024-06-09 (X)

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Narendra Modi won a third term as Prime Minister of India.

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

What would count as true or false

Judge as of 2024-06-09. True if, after the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Narendra Modi had secured a third consecutive term as Prime Minister: either through the results declared on 4 June 2024 and being chosen as NDA leader, or through his swearing-in on 9 June 2024. Mostly true if he had been chosen to form the government but the swearing-in had not formally happened at the time of the statement. Mostly false if his coalition won but someone else was named Prime Minister. False if the NDA lost the election.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (1)

  1. E1 President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office and secrecy to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at the swearing-in-ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on June 09, 2024. | President of India President of India (Office of the President, website hosted by National Informatics Centre) · 9 June 2024

    “President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office and secrecy to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at the swearing-in-ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on June 09, 2024.”

Reasoning

E1 is the official website of the President of India, a source independent of Bill Gates. It records that President Droupadi Murmu swore in Narendra Modi as Prime Minister at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 9 June 2024 [E1]. The resolution criteria count a 9 June 2024 swearing-in as securing the third term, so the proposition holds as of the judging date.

Cite this claim

Bill Gates, “Narendra Modi won a third term as Prime Minister of India.” (said 9 June 2024). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_a97a09f183fe, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a97a09f183fe

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