Chief guest effect

In Gujarat, it pays to have Narendra Modi as chief guest at the inauguration of a plant. Or so says an industrialist of a large state-based conglomerate who confessed to pursuing the chief minister to inaugurate his plant. This was necessary, he said, not only "to be in his good books" but also because "if Modi chairs any plant inauguration, the roads and other infrastructure automatically improve overnight. And the roads leading to our plant were in really bad shape".