Will hype over Andhra Pradesh Global Investors Summit end up as an embarrassment?

It includes, according to unnamed bureaucrats who spoke to the media, such global heavyweights as Apple CEO Tim Cook, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

That apart, 15 Union ministers, 15 chief ministers, 44 global industrialists, and 53 Indian industry bigwigs — including Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Anand Mahindra, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Adi Godrej, Rishad Premji of Wipro, and N Chandrasekaran of Tata Son, among others — have been invited to the summit in Vizag. Not to speak of “ambassadors of several countries”.

“Where was the need to put all this out in the media?” one YSRCP leader said in a conversation with South First. No investor summit has ever attracted all these bigwigs at the same time. It would have been wiser to just announce the names of those accepted the invitation, he added.

The ruling party leader recalled how, when the TDP organised such summits when it was in power, the YSRCP was merciless in its criticism over the hyped-up events and their poor outcomes. In fact, the YSRCP had dubbed the TDP as an “event organiser”.

And now the boot will be on the other foot.

P.S.: A local wag had this thought — what if all the invitees did land up for the summit? Where would they park their planes?