Gulf / inequality + electoral-autocracy critique
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Arab News · Saudi Arabia · Modi becomes India's longest continuously serving elected prime minister
Two-sided Gulf framing: notes infrastructure and financial-inclusion gains, but centres biographer Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay on crony capitalism and a drift toward 'electoral autocracy' under the milestone.
“Crony capitalism has been at its most manifested manner in the last 12 years. There is a completely lopsided economic development. The rich have become richer, the poor have become poorer. — N. Mukhopadhyay”