The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leaving no stone unturned to win maximum support and sweep the Gujarat Assembly election. Over a month ahead of the Assembly election in the state, a team of 500 workers (mostly women) is all set to campaign in Surat.

Workers are being trained to address and answer queries of voters during a door-to-door campaign.

India Today attended one such brainstorming session carried out by BJP Minority Morcha vice-president Haider Azam at its Bandra office. In the first phase, 250 workers will leave Mumbai for Surat on November 5. "There are 12 Assembly seats in Surat. We are targeting constituencies with 25,000-50,000 Muslim voters. We will meet trustees of Madrasas to understand their issues and campaign at each booth," said Azam.

One of the challenge can be the absence of Muslim candidates from the BJP list, but that has not hampered the morale of workers. "Seat distribution is decided by the parliamentary board. For a worker it is important that the party wins. We will campaign on issues related to education, employment, business and security for Muslims. Others are trying to deviate from these issues by focussing on topics like gau raksha. Our experience tells us that business of Muslims is doing well in Gujarat and the state is riot-free since the last 15 years," the Morcha president added.

"We are encouraging people to show open support to parties. Our campaigns have been successful till now. We record issues of each constituency and give it to the candidate so that work is done to improvise on them," a worker from the Mahila Morcha of BJP said.

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Gujarat Assembly election: BJP to deploy 250 workers from Mumbai to woo Muslim voters in Surat

In the first phase, 250 of 500 workers will leave Mumbai for Surat on November 5 and answer queries of voters during a door-to-door campaign.