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What is the religion of Mukesh Ambani?

What is the religion of Mukesh Ambani?
What is the religion of Mukesh Ambani?

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Mukesh Ambani is the Chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries. He is the richest man in India, and until recently he was also the richest man in Asia.

Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries, was not actually born in India. Ambani was born in Yemen on April 19, 1957, but the family moved to Bholeshore in Mumbai in 1958, where they lived in a ‘rice’. Mukesh Ambani now owns a total of 41 41 billion and owns the world’s first billion-dollar home, Antilia.

Mukesh Ambani is the Chairman and Managing Director of Indian company Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the largest company in the Indian energy and materials group Reliance Group.

Nevertheless, Ambani and his company promote a carefully crafted image of a man of simplicity. He is religious and regularly performs Hindu rituals, abstaining from meat and alcohol. Ambani offered prayers to Goddess Laxmi and Kuber, the god of wealth, at the temple.

Ambani Dhero Bhai was one of Ambani’s four children, who previously worked as a gas station attendant. Due to the increasingly unstable political environment in Aden, where Mukesh was born, the family moved to the Bhulishwar neighbourhood of Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1958, where they built a rice hut (a communal building in which usually less There are two rented rooms). Apartments). That same year, Dhirubhai and a cousin founded Reliance Commercial Corporation, which grew into a commodity trading business in RIL, which they initially ran from a one-room rental space.

Ambani’s wealth and influence at home have opened the door abroad. Last fall, he travelled to the Middle East, where he was born in 1957 in Yemen. This time the arrangement was a special meeting for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to board a megayacht in the Red Sea. A dozen top businessmen, including Swift Bank’s Masayoshi son. Among the audience was Mukesh, who was sitting next to the Crown Prince.

Ambani – who once sent a live elephant made of silver to Middle Eastern royalty – is a capable political operator. At the Riyadh conference, he praised Prince Mohammed, who faced international criticism in 2018 over the assassination of deviant journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Ambani told the audience that like India, the monarchy has been “blessed with leadership that is unique in the world”.

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