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2019 Indian general election	9,143	9,143
2024 Indian general election	6,537	6,537
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Hindutva	33,380	33,380
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Health and sanitation	15,832	15,832
Foreign policy	14,669	14,669
Defence	18,345	18,345
Environment	7,447	7,447
Democratic backsliding	4,174	4,174
Public perception and image	2,332	24,503
Image	7,503	7,503
Approval ratings	5,990	5,990
In popular culture	8,678	8,678
Awards and recognition	27,685	27,685
Electoral history	5,997	5,997
Writing career	3,262	3,262
Bibliography	2,872	2,872
See also	110	110
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I request the addition of the following images to the relevant sections of the Narendra Modi article:

Development Projects section

Please add this image to highlight major infrastructure achievements:

Rationale:* The Chenab Bridge is a landmark infrastructure accomplishment completed during Modi’s tenure and represents India’s engineering capabilities.

Defence section

Please add the following images:

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Rationale:* These images reflect the Prime Minister's engagement with the armed forces and symbolize national defence efforts. 8diq (talk) 06:13, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done This article is about Mr. Modi, not about his premiership and this would be excessive detail. RegentsPark (comment) 14:28, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@RegentsPark 8diq (talk) 04:00, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

People have long warned you on your talk page about not adding excessive images to articles. It doesn’t seem that you responded to any of them. Northern Moonlight 05:18, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Selling tea on the station platform

According to Modi and his neighbours, he worked infrequently in his father's tea stall in the Vadnagar railway station.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Chatterji, Angana P.; Hansen, Thomas Blom; Jaffrelot, Christophe (2019), "Introduction", in Chatterji, Angana P.; Hansen, Thomas Blom; Jaffrelot, Christophe (eds.), Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India, Oxford University Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-19-007817-1
^ Roberts, Adam (2017), Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India, Public Affairs, ISBN 978-1-61039-670-7
^ Roberts, Adam (23 May 2015), Special Report, India: Modi's many tasks (PDF), London: Economist, archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2021, retrieved 22 December 2021

The first citation says "he had to work in his father's tea shop on the railway platform when he was a child."
The second citation is to a 336 page book. No page number is given. The Google Books URL did not allow me access to the book.
The third citation says "Most of them recall something of the childhood of Narendra Modi ... He rarely helped his father with the tea stall."

The second citation does not add anything - unless anyone objects I will delete it.-- Toddy1 (talk) 08:14, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

who care... 152.58.17.226 (talk) 13:52, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think this information should be deleted yeah EarthDude (talk) 04:27, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Restructuring notes

An editor has restructured some notes that had citations in two steps: step 1, step 2. Before the edits individual notes looked like this:

Sources describing that India has experienced a backslide in democracy:^{[23][24][25][26][27]}

Now individual notes look like this:

Sources:

Brunkert, Lennart; Kruse, Stefan; Welzel, Christian (3 April 2019). "A tale of culture-bound regime evolution: the centennial democratic trend and its recent reversal". Democratization. 26 (3): 422–443. doi:10.1080/13510347.2018.1542430. ISSN 1351-0347. S2CID 148625260. Archived from the original on 10 October 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
Khaitan, Tarunabh (26 May 2020). "Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: Executive Aggrandizement and Party-state Fusion in India". Law & Ethics of Human Rights. 14 (1): 49–95. doi:10.1515/lehr-2020-2009. hdl:11343/241852. ISSN 2194-6531. S2CID 221083830.
Jaffrelot, Christophe (2021). Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy. Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1dc9jzx.
Ganguly, Sumit (18 September 2020). "India's Democracy Is Under Threat". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
"India: Freedom in the World 2021 Country Report". Freedom House. 2021. Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
Goel, Vindu; Gettleman, Jeffrey (2 April 2020). "Under Modi, India's Press Is Not So Free Anymore". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2 April 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (19 April 2024). "'Messianic spell': how Narendra Modi created a cult of personality". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 April 2024.

If the article is going to have this, it would be better if these "notes" were moved from the notes section into the references section.

In addition, the other "notes" that listed sources said what the sources were listed for, for example, "Sources describing Modi's administration as complicit in the 2002 violence:", but for some reason the example above had this removed. I think "Sources describing that India has experienced a backslide in democracy" should be restored.

Finally, Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy is a book - the citation adds no value without a page number. I do not understand why it was added to the example above - the point already have five citations! Adding that one was citation overkill.-- Toddy1 (talk) 06:05, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Im fine with moving them to the references section. I've also removed the Jaffrelot book. After another thought, it really was overkill haha EarthDude (talk) 06:33, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III - Cyprus highest civilian honour

Add this in section Awards and recognition . "Mr Modi recieved Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III - Cyprus highest civilian honour"

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the most internationally decorated Indian PM in office.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/narendra-modi-becomes-indian-pm-with-most-international-honours-8691309 2409:40C2:403B:F667:5800:B7D9:DB6A:F439 (talk) 12:34, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

yeah, common get to work 2409:40C2:403B:F667:5800:B7D9:DB6A:F439 (talk) 12:38, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

somebody tag an admin, the biased one, point a cross hair 45.124.143.221 (talk) 09:30, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilink request

Link 'Vivekananda' to Swami Vivekananda under Early life and education. Kaeez06 (talk) 18:08, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Chatterji, Angana P.; Hansen, Thomas Blom; Jaffrelot, Christophe (2019), "Introduction", in Chatterji, Angana P.; Hansen, Thomas Blom; Jaffrelot, Christophe (eds.), Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India, Oxford University Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-19-007817-1

[2] Roberts, Adam (2017), Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India, Public Affairs, ISBN 978-1-61039-670-7

[3] Roberts, Adam (23 May 2015), Special Report, India: Modi's many tasks (PDF), London: Economist, archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2021, retrieved 22 December 2021

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