The Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit-2016 started in Gurgaon today.
The recent Jat agitation cast a shadow on the investors' meet in Haryana, with industrialist Anand Mahindra pointing out how the issue can possibly affect those considering investing in the state.
"Any investor looks for security and law order, recent events have cast shadow on that," Mr Mahindra said. "I'm sure chief minister will do whatever he can to maintain social harmony and law and order."
The first "Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit-2016", in which investors from 12 nations are participating, started days after the agitation in which nearly 30 people died and property worth hundreds of crores were destroyed.
For days, the protesters had blocked rail and road traffic and targeted vehicles and shops across five districts and the stir was called off only after the state government promised to introduce a bill to give reservation in jobs to Jats and four other communities in the current assembly session.
Though Mr Mahindra, the chairman and managing director of the Mahindra Group, was the only industrialist to raise the issue during his address in the inaugural session, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar responded to it.
"Natural calamities and law order situations arise everywhere - what matters is how a government responds... I was confident we have done the right thing," Mr Khattar said.
Union minister Arun Jaitley, who inaugurated the event, also referred to it towards the end of his address. "Haryana has more resilience to deal with the kind of crisis that happened a few weeks ago," the finance minister said.
The Haryana government has set a target to attract investment to the tune of Rs. 4.25 lakh crore during the summit. The participating countries include China, Czech Republic, Japan, Malawi, Mauritius, New Zealand, South Korea, Peru, Poland, Spain, Britain and Tunisia.