Small traders are fed up with the anti-business moves by Modi, who is only keen on helping the big companies," Mukesh Rathod, who owns Krishna Fashion, a ready-to-wear garment business on Vaishno Devi Road in Surat, said before the vote. "This will have ramifications in the Gujarat elections."
The BJP's vulnerabilities have been tested in Gujarat by a farming crisis and the popularity of local caste leaders, such as Hardik Patel, demanding affirmative action. Surat has become the .....
