A performer poses during celebrations after Rahul Gandhi, newly elected president of India's main opposition Congress party, took charge as the president during a ceremony outside the party's headquarters in New Delhi, India, December 16, 2017. (Photo by Altaf Hussain/Reuters)

In this January 16, 2019, file photo, a homeless man sleeps on a median strip in New Delhi, India. In India, some 270 million people – nearly 22 percent of the country's population – live in poverty, making giveaways particularly attractive to voters. The Modi government in its interim budget in January announced farmers would be paid 6,000 rupees ($85) annually, benefiting as many as 120 million households and income tax relief to the middle class. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo/File)

A Hindu devotee dressed as Potharaju, the brother of the Hindu goddess Mahakali, performs during the Bonalu festival procession at the Sri Ujjaini Mahakali Temple in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad on July 18, 2022. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)

A Kashmiri woman walks on a footbridge as it rains in Srinagar, June 24, 2015. This year's monsoon rains in India are officially forecast to be only 88 percent of the long-term average. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)

Tourists take a panoramic view of Kuala Lumpur from a skybox during a media preview at Kuala Lumpur Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 05 May 2016. Skybox, 421 metres above ground level will be the latest tourists attraction at Kuala Lumpur Tower, the 7th tallest freestanding tower in the world. (Photo by Ahmad Yusni/EPA)

A woman stands at the door of her shanty at a slum in Mumbai, India July 20, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)

The sun rises beside St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, as the unseasonably cool weather continues on Thursday, April 28, 2016. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

A woman sits behind a bicycle on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, December 31, 2019. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)