Some three decades ago, when N. Chandrababu Naidu was seeking to turn southern India into a global tech hub, he regularly encountered skepticism from investors.“I used to fight with them,” Naidu, 75, said in an interview from the coastal town of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, the southeastern state he has led on and off since 1995. “You are having the wrong impression. The day will come. We’ll prove it.”These days, he said, India is seen as “indispensable.”Naidu, who first won elected office nearly half a century ago, rose to global prominence in the 1990s by encouraging Bill Gates to bring Microsoft Corp. to Hyderabad and later welcoming Bill Clinton on the first visit by a sitting US president to southern India. Investor-friendly policies laid the foundation for a regional boom that ge

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