Why the People of India walked out

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60. It was noticeable that people walked out

when he talked about electricity and when he talked about unemployment.
People knew he was lying.
There were Indian cricket fans posting about the lies,

One more thing - he was fact checked.

https://week.com/2020/02/24/ap-fact-check-trump-hypes-india-modernization-us-economy/

THE FACTS: His suggestion that all of India now has access to electricity is false. The government of India says a village is electrified if at least 10% of homes and public buildings have electricity. According to the World Bank, about 99 million people, or 7% of India’s population, still live in the dark.

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TRUMP: “Six hundred million more people have access to basic sanitation.”

THE FACTS: He’s skirting critical facts.

It’s true that India has built more than 110 million new toilets since Modi’s government came to power in 2014, leading to increased access to basic sanitation. But implementation has been spotty in a country where venturing into the fields to defecate has been widespread and accepted.

More than 60% of India’s 1.3 billion people live in more than 600,000 villages. Poor villagers who couldn’t build toilets in their homes chose open fields, forests, ditches and other open spaces for defecation — and that cultural practice has been slow to change.

A 2018 study conducted by the non-profit Research Institute for Compassionate Economics, for instance, found 44% of the rural population across four large states still defecate in the open. Nearly one-quarter of people in households with toilets also continued to defecate in the open, a figure unchanged from 2014, according to the study.

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