The world's largest elections start on 11 April and some are worried divisions will increase if India's incumbent PM wins again.
For the party faithful, he's the only man for the job.
However, critics have expressed concern - saying that while Mr Modi's nationalist mantra empowers the Hindu majority, it is isolating minorities. Harsh Mander, director of the Centre for Equity Studies, agrees - saying their research has found the majority of vigilante attacks on Muslims by Hindu mobs in the name of protecting cows have happened in the last five years.Cows are sacred to Hindus and one of the prime minister's signature policies has been protecting them.
"I don't think India has ever been as bitterly divided," he told Sky News."The extent to which hate has not just been normalised but it's been legitimised and validated in a way that we have never seen before."In 2017, 55-year-old Muslim Pehlu Khan and his sons were beaten by a mob for trading cows.His son Irshad told Sky News:"At the beginning there were about nine or 10 people but then more joined in to beat us up. They just kept hitting us.
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