How will GST, demonetisation affect BJP's chances in MP? Traders are split

Some say GST helped their businesses grow while others say they are bearing the pain for a good future

The small and medium entrepreneurs of Dewas, an industrial cluster 33 kms away from Indore, as well as the traders of Madhya Pradesh’s Malwa region are split in their views on the impact of demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax regime on their businesses. In this demonstrably prosperous pocket of a state that’s struggling to come out of the BIMARU quagmire, the traders have been hit much harder than the SMEs by the combined effect of the new order. However, many of them slowly absorbed the changes and are coming to terms with them. They believe that the “reforms”