PM Modi has been featured on the Time Magazine cover of its May 20 issue with a headline that has been courting controversies. 

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The cover carries a caricature of Modi with the headline, ‘Divider in Chief’. 

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The article, written by Aatish Taseer said that India, the world’s largest democracy was more divided than ever. 

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It also covers other issues such as mob lynchings, Yogi Adityanath’s appointment to the post of UP CM in 2017 and the BJP’s recent decision to field terror-accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in Bhopal. 

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The article was also extremely critical of the opposition and called it weak. 

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This is not the first time that Modi has found himself on the cover of Time. Earlier in 2012, the magazine had described him as a ‘controversial, ambitious and shrewd politician’.