Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi is facing humiliation from Australians during his visit to Melbourne, videos of which, including a reporter’s live field report and clips from protests, have flooded the internet.
Reporting live and showing Modi walking away in the background, a reporter said that this was “about as close as you would get to Narendra Modi on his trip to Melbourne”, adding that he “famously avoids unscripted news conferences, preferring instead more stage-managed appearances”.
The report drew a wave of reactions from users. One person wrote that “world media is exposing Vishwaguru the way Godi media will never”, adding “they are the real journalists”.
Another user called Modi “Indian Hitler”, writing that “leaders of other countries must have common sense not to push India and the rest of the world into Nazism by embracing Modi and looking solely at their naive neoliberal policies”.
A third user described him as a “cooked illiterate PM”.
Other reactions called it “useless leadership”, with one user saying they wanted the world to see the man Hindus have chosen as their leader.
Another remarked that Modi “will answer some unscripted simple math questions limited to addition, subtraction”, while a separate comment said “India does not need anyone to explain how hopeless the situation is”.
Separately, far right protesters held anti Modi banners outside Marvel Stadium ahead of the “Melbourne Meets Modi” event. One of the banners in a viral video read, “Modi go home and take the rest with you.”
In another video, that has been circulating on X, an Australian man was seen confronting Modi from afar, saying “fck Modi, fck India, go back to India, this is Australia, why are you in, we don’t want any more migration, this country is for Australians”.
India remains one of Australia’s largest trading partners, with around one million Indian born residents forming Australia’s largest overseas population.
However, this is not the first time Modi has faced global humiliation on a foreign visit. During his trip to Norway in May, Norwegian journalist Helle Lyng Svendsen asked him why he would not take questions from “the freest press in the world”, and Modi walked away from the podium without responding.
Svendsen was seen following him and asking whether he “deserved the trust” of the Norwegian government.
