NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD: Investors, foreign as well as domestic, are hoping that the India Economic Convention 2014 slated to begin on Thursday in New Delhi will provide details of the economic vision of BJP ’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi HDFC chairperson Deepak Parekh , former Union minister Suresh Prabhu and high profile former bureaucrat Anil Baijal are among 350 attendees. The event to be kicked off with a speech from BJP leader Arun Jaitley will be attended by heads of several Indian corporates and ambassadors of G20 nations, economists and regulators from over 35 countries. Modi will give the closing address.Narendra Modi, according to a person familiar with his thinking, is expected to lay out his vision of a job-driven economy, “with focus on the power and manufacturing sectors, and on creating worldclass infrastructure”.“The lop-sided growth of the services sector is not good for the economy in the long run. We need to revive manufacturing in a big way so that jobs are created by the millions,” that will be Modi’s pitch, this person said. He said that at a meeting with a group of fund managers last week in Gandhinagar, the Narendra Modi team had manufacturing and power sectors. “We will go all out, renegotiate gas prices with countries such as Oman and ensure there is enough fuel to run power plants, which are ready but idle,” one of his aides said.Some of them had met Team Modi, including his confidant Amit Shah and Gujarat industries minister Saurabh Patel, in Gandhinagar last week. The investors, which included the likes of Patrick Doyle and Jay Mehta of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Conrad Saldanha of Neuberger and Berman, Tim Jensen of Oaktree Capital Management, wanted to get a sense of the broad direction that a future Modiled government may take.Arijit De, India head of marketing and corporate affairs for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told ET that investors across the world keep a track of political developments and they also understand that Modi is a strong contender for the prime minister’s post.Jayant Sinha — son of former finance minister and BJP leader Yashwant Sinha and director of the India Foundation that is organising the event, said it is an opportunity for senior BJP leaders to share their vision with influential business leaders.India Economic Convention 2014 will have two panel discussions, one on India's macroeconomic prospects and another one on revitalizing the infrastructure sector.The first will include noted Indian venture capitalist and author Gurcharan Das, chairman of Enam Financial Consultants Vallabh Bhansali, and economists Bibek Debroy and Ajit Ranade while the second one will have former union minister Suresh Prabhu, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change RK Pachauri, Deepak Parekh, chairman of India's largest mortgage lender HDFC, Anil Baijal, former secretary of the ministry of urban development and the Australian high commissioner to India, Patrick Suckling.India's GDP growth dropping below the 5% market in over a decade, along with an unstable policy environment over the last two years have contributed to the decline in investor interest in the country. According to data from the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, in the period between April-December 2013, foreign investment inflows dipped 2% to $16.56 billion from $16.94 billion during the corresponding period of the previous year. The period between 2004-05 and 2009-10 has also been a slow one for job creation. The most recent survey by the Planning Commission shows that India lost 5 million jobs between 2005 and 2010.According to a recent FICCI report, India loses $68 billion or about Rs 4,14,800 crore of its GDP because of electricity shortage, says a report."Moves such as retrospective taxation have dented investor confidence. India needs to restore its credibility. It is not a problem of opportunity today," says Shaurya Doval, director at India Foundation.