With an eye on the upcoming Gujarat assembly polls, BJP is working overtime to lure Gujarati voters in Mumbai and across the nation. The party has asked city based Gujarati voters to visit their home state and exercise their franchisee. Many Gujarati residents from the city are keen to visit Gujarat to vote for BJP. Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had held several rallies in Gujarat to garner support for BJP. He had laid foundation stones of various projects in Rajkot, Vadnagar, Gandhinagar and Bharuch in the state.

Modi is aware that traders in the state are unhappy with the government’s decision to hastily implement Goods and Services Tax (GST) and demonetisation campaign which has had severe impact on the economy. Therefore, he is giving some solace to traders by announcing that the government will try to address their concerns about GST and steps would be taken to make it tax payer friendly. Traders form a major chunk of BJP’s vote bank in Gujarat. He also added that GST Act was passed by arriving at a consensus with opposition parties like Congress. Earlier the Congress had attacked BJP for deliberately delaying the polling dates for Gujarat which would enable Modi to organise more rallies and announce polls sops to attract voters.