Overview
- Devendra Fadnavis is in Davos for the World Economic Forum, where his wife says he is holding meetings from early morning to late night to seek investment and jobs for Maharashtra.
- Sanjay Raut of the Shiv Sena (UBT) criticized chief ministers' presence at Davos as a picnic and pressed for disclosure of their travel expenses.
- Amruta Fadnavis rejected Raut's characterization as baseless and described attending the WEF as a duty for state leaders pursuing economic opportunities.
- At Davos, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said India is on track to become the world's third-largest economy in the next few years, a view economist Gita Gopinath supported with a 2028 projection while flagging structural bottlenecks.
- The political backdrop includes the BJP-led Mahayuti's strong BMC election showing credited to Fadnavis, and there has been no official release of Davos travel cost details so far.