American news magazine Time has featured Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on the cover page of its May 20 issue with a headline that maycreate controversy across the India amid the election season.
The headline reads “India’s Divider in Chief” thatis and carries a caricature of the Prime Minister criticises Modi.
This title pertains to the article in the magazine, writtenby Aatish Taseer with the headline “Can the World’s Largest DemocracyEndure Another Five Years of a Modi Government?”
The write up compares former Prime Minister JawaharlalNehru’s idea of secularism with the prevailing social “stress” underModi who “demonstrated no desire to foster brotherly feelings betweenHindus and Muslims,” the article read.
Besides, the article also recalled the Gujarat riots that claimed lives of thousands of Muslims.
The whole article is based on the Hindu-Muslim relations andblames Modi for being pro-Hindu.
It is not the first time when the magazine has come withcritical commentary about Modi. In its published article in 2012, the magazinedescribed him as a controversial, ambitious and a shrewd politician.