After government launched AI Centre of Excellence at Kanpur, Ropar and Delhi, Infosys ex-CFO Mohandas Pai said, "Why are you...ignoring South in IT, ignoring Bengaluru?...Bengaluru voted for NDA but all we get is stepmotherly treatment." Responding to Pai, Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu wrote, "The committee...had plenty of us from South...I beg people to not inject North-South politics in this."