{"id":64224,"date":"2024-05-20T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T02:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/india-election-rising-inequality-unemployment-narendra-modi"},"modified":"2024-05-20T11:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T02:00:52","slug":"modi-builds-highways-but-where-are-our-jobs-rising-inequality-looms-over-indias-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64224","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Modi builds highways but where are our jobs?\u2019: rising inequality looms over India\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the number of Indian billionaires soars, growing unemployment has become a big problem for the BJP as it campaigns for a third term<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t even the real wedding, just the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/28\/anant-ambani-wedding-son-indias-richest-person-mukesh-celebrity-guest-list\">pre-wedding party<\/a>. But that didn\u2019t stop India\u2019s richest billionaire, Mukesh Ambani, whose son is set to marry the daughter of a millionaire, from throwing an affair so ostentatious that no one could question just how wealthy they are.<\/p>\n<p>The pop star Rihanna was paid about $8m to perform. The catering alone cost $25m and the final bill for the glittering soiree, held in March, reportedly came in at about $150m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/india-election-rising-inequality-unemployment-narendra-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the number of Indian billionaires soars, growing unemployment has become a big problem for the BJP as it campaigns for a third termIt wasn\u2019t even the real wedding, just the pre-wedding party. But that didn\u2019t stop India\u2019s richest billionaire, Muke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64225,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224\/revisions\/64225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}