Mukesh Ambani lands in Delhi the day before Reliance AGM

Mukesh Ambani flew his Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ (VT-AKV) from his home base at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport to Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on June 18, the 1-hour-44-minute hop arriving at 13:25 local time. The flight came the afternoon before Reliance Industries’ 49th Annual General Meeting, scheduled for June 19 at 2:00 PM IST via virtual conferencing.

Per coverage from NiftyTrader and GrowJustIndia, this AGM carries unusually high stakes: the company is expected to provide a timeline for the long-awaited Jio Platforms IPO. The draft red herring prospectus could be filed within days. Mukesh Ambani has also directed top executives to make Reliance the world's first AI-native large conglomerate, per Livemint, with a so-called 'RIL manifesto' that reworks every workflow around artificial intelligence. The meeting will be streamed through JioEvents, and a Jio Haptik WhatsApp chatbot is already fielding questions from the company’s 44 lakh shareholders, according to MFNewsDaily.

The Delhi arrival follows a string of flights on June 16 that traced loops near Varanasi and Prayagraj—likely site visits tied to Reliance’s retail or new-energy expansion. With the Jio IPO imminent, the battery gigafactory in Jamnagar awaiting a production-start confirmation, and the AI pivot demanding attention, this year’s AGM is less a routine gathering than an inflection point.