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Modi govt vs Delhi Gymkhana Club is not class war. It’s a distraction from Billionaire Raj
The Delhi Gymkhana Club may symbolise old Lutyens privilege, but the Modi government’s real legacy is unprecedented concentration of wealth, crony capitalism and rising inequality in India.
Practically nobody outside the Delhi Gymkhana Club will shed tears for the Narendra Modi government’s sudden eviction notice on ‘security’ grounds. The exclusive 113-year-old club sits on 27 acres of prime land in central Delhi, its membership is dominated by former bureaucrats and retired military brass — the so-called Lutyens elite.
But what’s actually rich is the rhetoric. TV channels owned by billionaires Gautam Adani, Mukesh Ambani and Subhash Chandra are discovering their inner social-justice warriors, railing against the cheap gin-and-tonics being swilled in the Gymkhana Club.
Like right-wing populists around the world, the Modi dispensation pretends to take on the elite, yet it has facilitated the greatest concentration of political and economic power in Indian history. Its cronies have been effectively ‘gifted’ thousands of crores in capital subsidies, tax breaks and precious forest land, while the majority of India grapples with price rises, joblessness, and record household debt. To cover it all up, sometime you need easy targets.
The facts are well known, not that a section of the Indian........