evidence: The first claim is that ‘Minimum wage increased by 42%, directly benefiting 55 lakh workers’. [...] While this points to the fact that the claim itself is misleading, in the budget speech of 2019-20, the finance minister stated that ‘during the last five years, the minimum wages of labourers of the all categories have been increased by 42%, which is the highest ever’. [...] The same report goes on to describe that ‘the decisions of the Government on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission benefited over 1 crore Central Government employees, including Armed Forces personnel and Members of All India Services, comprising approximately 53 lakh pensioners including Armed Forces personnel’.