He's the world's most popular leader. But as Narendra Modi arrives in Australia, tensions in his diaspora community are flaring.
A 2015 visit to the UK saw 60,000 crammed into London's Wembley Stadium, while 50,000 turned out in 2019 to see him appear on stage alongside Donald Trump in Texas.
"What he does here is actually politically-motivated towards how it's perceived back in India," she told SBS News. And simmering tensions boiled over in Leicester last year, in what the BBC described as "large-scale disorder" between young men from the city's Muslim and Hindu populations. SBS News has also spoken to members of the Indian diaspora who feared a backlash from pro-BJP activists here, or repercussions for family members in India, for criticising the government.
"It gets seeded in Australia and then amplified. What's troubling is we had none of this [before]. Less than 10 years ago, the Indian community was always a cohesive community," he told SBS News.
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