{"id":64766,"date":"2024-06-07T22:27:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/07\/muted-election-win-for-modi-may-usher-in-new-era-for-indias-oligarch-class"},"modified":"2024-06-07T22:27:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:27:17","slug":"muted-election-win-for-modi-may-usher-in-new-era-for-indias-oligarch-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64766","title":{"rendered":"Muted election win for Modi may usher in new era for India\u2019s oligarch class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defeats for ruling Bharatiya Janata party in Uttar Pradesh highlight underbelly of malcontent over inequality and lack of jobs<\/p>\n

A few weeks before the election that weakened Narendra Modi\u2019s grip on India, the rich, powerful and beautiful descended on his home state of Gujarat. The occasion was what one Indian writer described<\/a> as \u201clikely the most ostentatious pre-wedding ceremony the modern world has ever seen\u201d.<\/p>\n

In March, to celebrate<\/a> the forthcoming marriage of Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, India\u2019s richest man, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Ivanka Trump flew in. So did the entertainment: Rihanna and Akon. The airport near the venue was supposed to be reserved for India\u2019s armed forces but the media reported that the authorities had granted special permission for non-military jets to land.<\/p>\n

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Defeats for ruling Bharatiya Janata party in Uttar Pradesh highlight underbelly of malcontent over inequality and lack of jobsA few weeks before the election that weakened Narendra Modi\u2019s grip on India, the rich, powerful and beautiful descended on his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4294,"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":[62,3091,1203,433,61,1886,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-india-elections-2024","category-inequality","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-the-super-rich","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\/64766","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\/4294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64767,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64766\/revisions\/64767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}