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A new $220 million temple sits at the center of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to construct a nearly $4 billion “Hindu Vatican.” But the plan has been dividing the secular country while providing Modi with political gain ahead of the next election.

As the campaign targeting of Muslims becomes more direct and shrill, experts fear Modi’s words could encourage violence.

A lower turnout so far in India’s long general election has rattled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign managers, raising into question whether his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies can achieve the landslide victory predicted by opinion polls just one month ago.