A social media post claiming that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh topped an American survey of 50 most honest people in the world is being shared across social media platforms. The post further claims that Manmohan Singh is the only Indian to be featured on the list. Through this article, let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Manmohan Singh topped an American survey of 50 most honest people in the world.
Fact: Although Manmohan Singh was conferred with few international awards and featured in a Times survey, there is no such American survey rating Manmohan Singh as the most honest person in the world. If at all any such survey by the US indeed features Manmohan Singh as claimed, news agencies would have reported it. However, we could not find any news articles which reported such a survey. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Google search with relevant keywords did not yield any such American survey stating former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the most honest person in the world. However, the search yielded us few news articles which reported Manmohan Singh featuring in Time 2010 – The 100 Most Influential People in the world list, and him being awarded few international awards like ‘The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers’ by Japan for his contribution to India-Japan ties, he is the first Indian to receive the honour, also the World Statesman Award by the US.
If at all any such survey by the US indeed features Manmohan Singh as claimed in the post, news agencies would have reported it. However, we could not find any news articles which reported such a survey. Hence, this proves that there isn’t any such survey.
FACTLY had earlier debunked a similar claim that an American survey had rated PM Modi as the most honest leader of the world.
To sum it up, there is no such survey rating Manmohan Singh as the most honest person in the world.
