In a Stockholm boardroom on Thursday, October 15, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Saini made a direct pitch to Swedish industrialists — inviting them to plant capital in one of India's most industrially dense states and deepen the emerging 'Make in India, Made with Sweden' partnership.

The pitch from Stockholm

Saini's roundtable engagement in Sweden was framed around a bilateral momentum that, according to the Chief Minister's Office, received fresh impetus from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Sweden in May 2026 — a trip the CMO says elevated the two countries' relationship to a rannītik sānjhedārī ('strategic partnership'). The stated ambition: double bilateral trade, investment, and economic exchanges within five years.

For Swedish companies, Saini's message was specific. Haryana — home to automobile manufacturing corridors around Gurgaon and Manesar, a thriving IT belt, and emerging green-tech clusters — is positioning itself as the natural Indian landing pad for Swedish engineering, automotive, and clean-technology firms. The CM's case rested on alignment: Sweden's industrial DNA fits Haryana's existing supply-chain architecture.

Haryana Global Investors Summit 2027: the anchor event

The centrepiece ask at the roundtable was an invitation to the Haryana Global Investors Summit 2027 — the state's marquee FDI-attraction event, which Saini positioned as the formal moment for Swedish firms to convert expressions of interest into investment commitments. Getting major Swedish names onto the summit's delegate list would itself signal traction on the bilateral doubling target.

This is a well-worn playbook in Indian economic diplomacy: central-government strategic visits open doors in European capitals, and state chief ministers follow in close sequence to harvest the goodwill into concrete, state-level FDI flows. Haryana is among the more aggressive practitioners of this approach, given the state's geography — it wraps around New Delhi — and its concentration of multinational supply chains.

Make in India's European frontline

The Make in India initiative, launched in September 2014, has progressively shifted from a broad brand exercise to a targeted manufacturing-incentive framework, with Indian states competing fiercely to capture the FDI flows it generates. Saini's coinage — 'Made with Sweden' alongside 'Make in India' — is a deliberate signal to Swedish boardrooms: this is not a one-way production migration, but a co-manufacturing relationship where Swedish technology and Indian scale reinforce each other.

The metric to watch is simple. When the Haryana Global Investors Summit 2027 convenes, the number of Swedish companies in the room — and the investment letters of intent they carry — will reveal whether Stockholm's roundtable was a warm handshake or the start of something structural.