GST-hit textile traders begin campaign for PMNarendra Modi
TNN | Updated: Feb 7, 2019, 11:09 IST
A bill with the PM’s photoSURAT: The onslaught of goods and service tax (GST) may have adversely hit the textile business of Surat, but traders here are bating for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and have already started campaigning.
Many textile traders owing shops at Ring Road have printed bill-books and challans with pictures of PM with slogans ‘Namo Lao Desh Bachao’ ‘Namo Again’, ‘Vote for BJP’ etc. These traders are issuing bills to their counterparts across the country appealing them to bring Modi back to power in 2019.
At least 25 textile traders have printed such bill books to send out a message to their clients mainly in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Kolkata, Tamil Nadu and Hyderabad.
In 2014 Lok Sabha election, the textile traders in the city had supplied saris and dress materials in the bags having Modi’s images and message ‘Sab Ka Saath, Sab Ka Vikas’. They repeated this in 2015 Bihar Assembly election too.
There are over 165 textile markets in the city housing over 65,000 textile shops. The daily turnover of the saris and dress material is pegged at Rs 110 crore.
Market sources said that around Rs 70 crore worth of saris are dispatched on daily basis from Surat to various destinations including Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Kolkata, Punjab etc. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh account for Rs 15 crore worth daily business in sari.
Textile trader Bharat Rangolia said, “GST and demonetisation had a very bad impact on the trade, but things are settling down. Modi did not worry about vote bank while implementing GST. My bill book has his picture and message ‘Namo Again’.”
Natthu Sharma, a trader dealing on the e-commerce platform, said, “In the last few days, I have issued 200 bills carrying image of PM and a message to vote for him in 2019. I have got 40 calls from my clients in many states appreciating this initiative.”
Apart from bill books, the traders sending textile goods to other states are using specialized laces for packaging with the message ‘Namo Lao, Desh Bachao’.
Many textile traders owing shops at Ring Road have printed bill-books and challans with pictures of PM with slogans ‘Namo Lao Desh Bachao’ ‘Namo Again’, ‘Vote for BJP’ etc. These traders are issuing bills to their counterparts across the country appealing them to bring Modi back to power in 2019.
At least 25 textile traders have printed such bill books to send out a message to their clients mainly in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Kolkata, Tamil Nadu and Hyderabad.
In 2014 Lok Sabha election, the textile traders in the city had supplied saris and dress materials in the bags having Modi’s images and message ‘Sab Ka Saath, Sab Ka Vikas’. They repeated this in 2015 Bihar Assembly election too.
There are over 165 textile markets in the city housing over 65,000 textile shops. The daily turnover of the saris and dress material is pegged at Rs 110 crore.
Market sources said that around Rs 70 crore worth of saris are dispatched on daily basis from Surat to various destinations including Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Kolkata, Punjab etc. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh account for Rs 15 crore worth daily business in sari.
Textile trader Bharat Rangolia said, “GST and demonetisation had a very bad impact on the trade, but things are settling down. Modi did not worry about vote bank while implementing GST. My bill book has his picture and message ‘Namo Again’.”
Natthu Sharma, a trader dealing on the e-commerce platform, said, “In the last few days, I have issued 200 bills carrying image of PM and a message to vote for him in 2019. I have got 40 calls from my clients in many states appreciating this initiative.”
Apart from bill books, the traders sending textile goods to other states are using specialized laces for packaging with the message ‘Namo Lao, Desh Bachao’.
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