Could be. Minister mama definitely may have a hold over the business and him due to which he has to agree to this alliance. And this alliance is another way that Mama will have a hold over the family.
But the thing is they started with showing Ram talking of parivaar ki shanti, sukh etc... AH murder being unintentional, main khooni nahi hoon etc etc and then suddenly it seemed that he doesnt care about Meetwa, didnt like his becoming CEO, wants to separate Meet² 🤔... expressions and dialogues too confusing.
so again we come back to not being able to analyse any character properly because graph is not clear...