With 10,000 police officers deployed across the city over the next three days, Hyderabad will likely resemble a fortress.

The Telangana state government has said it is spending 80m rupees ($1.24m; £931,734) on the summit, but it is not clear how much the road repairs have cost.

“Everyone is thinking we are laying roads for Ivanka Trump but that’s not true,” senior state government minister KT Rama Rao said. “It was part of the usual repairs we start after the monsoon every year.”

But, whatever the motive may be, not everyone is impressed.

“Only the main roads which will be used by [President] Trump’s daughter have been repaired,” said Devender Reddy, a taxi driver. “Go into any of the lanes and you will drive straight into potholes.”