Absentees' forum

The World Economic Forum India Economic Summit's schedules went for a toss on Thursday as several government invitees skipped their appointments. First, a show hosted by BBC had to be rescheduled as Minister of State for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman failed to turn up. Then, in the panel discussion titled "Uniting the States" in which five chief ministers from Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan were scheduled to speak, only N Chandrababu Naidu of Andhra Pradesh turned up.