Musk blames India’s oligarchs, New Delhi cites security and the villages keep waiting

Late on October 7, Elon Musk complained on X that “certain oligarchs” were keeping Starlink out of India, and the next day he asked, by name, whether Mukesh Ambani really runs the country. India’s communications ministry answered that all three licensed satellite operators sit at the same stage of review, that security checks are still under way for all of them, and it called the charge “baseless and misconceived.”