Influential Hindu group urges India to block Starlink amid Musk — Ambani feud

By Munsif Vengattil BENGALURU, Oct 13 (Reuters) — An influential Hindu nationalist group close to India's ruling party urged the government on Tuesday to block Elon Musk's Starlink from launching satellite internet services in the country, citing national security concerns. Starlink's four-year wait to launch in India has come under renewed scrutiny after Musk last week accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and billionaire Mukesh Ambani of stalling its entry to favour Ambani's Reliance Jio. India's communications ministry said last week that security assessments were under way for Starlink and rival satellite ventures backed by Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel. It described suggestions the approval process was unfair or discriminatory as "baseless and misconceived". The call for Starlink's ban came from Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), the economic wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu nationalist organisation that is the ideological parent of Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. SJM also linked its demand to trade tensions with the US. If Washington imposes high tariffs on Indian imports "in the name of national security, then India is certainly within it