Divider in Chief PM Narendra Modi

Npnews24 online: American weekly Time magazine has put Prime Minister Narendra Modi on its cover, called him India’s “divider in chief”, and asked if India can endure five more years of his government.

The opposition pounced on the story on Friday. The women’s wing of the Congress, for example, pointed to the opening line — “Of the great democracies to fall to populism, India was the first.” — To attack PM Modi.

“Your truth is for all to see,” the All India Mahila Congress tweeted to Modi.

Sitting PM makes it to the cover of TIME Magazine

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Divider In Chief

“Of the great democracies to fall to populism, India was the first,” says the opening sentence of the article. 
Your truth is for all to see @narendramodi pic.twitter.com/I6AuCNN271

— All India Mahila Congress (@MahilaCongress) May 10, 2019

In the same issue, TIME published a second story on the prime minister, titled, “Modi Is India’s Best Hope for Economic Reform.”

The article is also critical of the the opposition, which it calls a “weak”, “ragtag” coalition; it says the Congress has “little to offer than the dynastic principle” and describes Rahul Gandhi as “an unteachable mediocrity”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been on the cover of TIME before — for example, an interview with the BJP leader headlined a May 2015 cover. (He has also won, more than once, the online readers’ poll for TIME Person of the Year.)