When actor and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Paresh Rawal recently commented on Bengalis as a slight at Bengali Muslim in Gujarat, he purposely planted a target on their back - one of either being Bangladeshi illegal migrants or Rohingya refugees.
While Gujarat has been a BJP-ruled state, the major contest in Gujarat elections is between BJP and Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) political parties
Gujarat has registered a voter turnout of 64.33 per cent for the recently-concluded elections to 182 Assembly seats, a drop of more than 4 per cent compared to the turnout registered in the 2017 polls
The ruling BJP ensured that the talking points in the election were anchored around communal issues, but for residents of Muslim ghettoes of Ahmedabad, livelihood concerns matter the most.