DigitEye India Fact Checkers
A claim on social media is going viral stating that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to a joint meeting of the United States Congress makes him the only world leader after Britain’s PM Winston Churchill, to be addressing the joint meeting twice.
This is called a real royal invitation for a respected Diplomat…. 👏🇮🇳 After Winston Churchill, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India is the only Second World leader who is given this honour for second time 🇮🇳💐👏 pic.twitter.com/A9fUxQSCT1
— SatvikHindu (@Satviksunil2) June 22, 2023
PM Modi addressed the Congress for the second time on 22nd June, 2023.
The shared message can be seen here and here.
FACT CHECK
A simple Google search for the truth landed us with results pertaining to all those dignitaries in history who addressed the US Congress twice. As per the US Congress records, apart from Churchill, African President Nelson Mandela and Israeli PM Yitzak Rabin had addressed the joint Congress twice while the current Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, had addressed it thrice.
Hence, the claim tht Indian PM Modi was the only world leader after Churchill to address the US Congress twice is false.
Claim: Modi is the only world leader to address a joint meeting of the US Congress twice after Churchill.
Conclusion: No, apart from Churchill, Mandela, Rabin had addressed the Congress twice while Netanyahu had addressed it thrice.
Rating: Misrepresentation — 
