FILE - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a white waistcoat, greets supporters from a vehicle during a roadshow in Varanasi, India, on May 13, 2024. Modi swept to power a decade ago on promises to transform India's economy, and It would be hard to argue he hasn't made strides. As he seeks a third term as prime minister, the country's economic growth is the envy of the world, its stock markets are booming, and new buildings and highways are popping up everywhere. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar, File)
A girl from an impoverished family plays with a doll outside her hut on the outskirts of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Rekha Devi, wife of Tuntun Sada, a laborer, drinks water outside her hut, in a village on the outskirts of Samastipur, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 12, 2024. Devi says "After the voting is over, nobody is going to ask about the poor, if we are dead or alive, if we get water or have food grains or not. Can the poor survive only by eating sand from the roadside? We have neither land for farming nor a house to live." (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
People take selfies in a shopping mall, in Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A laborer rests in his hut next to the corn put out on the ground to dry in a village on the outskirts of Samastipur, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A woman sweeps the floor of a swanky shopping mall, in Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A girl lights a gas cylinder in her hut, received under a government scheme for the poor, in a shanty town on the outskirts of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Women from impoverished families sit near the mud stoves for cooking outside their huts on the outskirts of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A woman from an impoverished family cleans the rice, which she received under a government scheme offering free ration, on the outskirts of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A rickshaw puller watches a couple alight from his rickshaw outside a shopping mall in Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Children from impoverished families play in their village on the outskirts of Samastipur, in Bihar, on May 12, 2024. Even as India's millionaires multiply, nearly 90% of its 1.4 billion population earns less than the average annual income of around $2,770, according to a World Inequality Lab study. The richest 1% own more than 40% of the country's wealth, while the bottom 50% of earners own only 3%. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Tuntun Sada, a laborer, stands outside his hut, in a village on the outskirts of Samastipur, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 12, 2024. Sada, says his life has only marginally improved because of the 18 kilograms (40 pounds) of free grains that helps feed his family of six. He still earns less than $100 a month after working the fields of wealthier landowners and at day's end, he returns home with a handful of cash, but no land of his own. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Tuntun Sada, a laborer, standing within his hut watches his children play outside in a village on the outskirts of Samastipur, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 12, 2024. Sada, says his life has only marginally improved because of the 18 kilograms (40 pounds) of free grains that helps feed his family of six. He still earns less than $100 a month after working the fields of wealthier landowners and at day's end, he returns home with a handful of cash, but no land of his own. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
People take selfies in front of a musical fountain in a shopping mall, in Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 13, 2024. Even as India's millionaires multiply, nearly 90% of its 1.4 billion population earns less than the average annual income of around $2,770, according to a World Inequality Lab study. The richest 1% own more than 40% of the country's wealth, while the bottom 50% of earners own only 3%. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A couple gets their film made on a mobile phone during an outing on the banks of the river Ganges in Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
FILE - A Mumbai Monorail train moves past a slum area during a trial run between Wadala and Chembur in Mumbai, India, on Jan. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)
A woman living in a slum makes dough out of wheat flour in her hut on the outskirts of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A woman from an impoverished family shows the sample of rice which she received under a government scheme offering free ration, on the outskirts of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, on May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)