Elon Musk has escalated a row over Starlink's stalled India launch into a personal jab at Mukesh Ambani, managing director of Reliance Industries, asking whether Asia's richest man effectively runs the country. The barb skips over an inconvenient fact. Ambani's own Jio signed a deal last year to sell the very service Musk says is being blocked.
On Thursday, 8 October, the SpaceX chief put a blunt question to his followers on X. 'Is Ambani the real boss of India?' Musk wrote. It capped several days of mounting complaints over why his satellite internet venture still lacks the final clearances it needs to start selling in the world's most populous nation.
