Well, it's really hard to pen markets for a new entrant without an established reputation (on the contrary - established slightly doubtful reputation).Egypt and Malaysia want tot and weapons deals. Lca can be assisted by sweetening those deals and find a sale or two. It would be well behind jf-17 in this regard which has made more than two export sales and at least used in combat. All military sales of such scale are more politics and brown paper bags filled with cash than they are about competence and capability anyway. I'm surprised china hasn't played that card more with potential customers but it also doesn't seem like china cares too much about the jf-17 platform seeing as Pakistan earns half a slice of an already small pie. There's just no point bribing and taking risks for little gain but for India... Go for it!
Normal way for such entrances is either doing it through cooperation and alliance networks(Korea way - but India, despite it slight lean towards the west, is non-aligned), or to those in dire need of weapons (Tejas has far too many US/Israeli components to even in most cases, and warm Indian relations with Russia worth more than any conceivable Tejas deal).
That leaves only small sweetened deal with token airforces(preferably dependant).
Frankly speaking - they probably should establish at least a few squadrons of mk.1A(which they are actually trying to sell), and visibly use it for some COIN. It'll at least ensure that someone they bribe (yes, sounds bad. yes, everyone is doing that) can tell that he buys something that works. Right now that hypothetical official simply can't.