NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver a virtual address to the global Patidar Business Summit on April 29. The 3-day summit will be taken place in Surat.

The Prime Minister's addressing the Patidar Business Summit is considered an effort to reach out to a politically crucial community in Gujarat ahead of the year-end assembly elections. The BJP, on the other hand, said to be uninterested in politics. "In Gujarat, the Patidars have political clout, but the Prime Minister's speech to their business summit had nothing to do with politics. They invited the Prime Minister, and he graciously accepted. There is no such thing as politics " a Gujarat BJP senior said.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel, Union Minister Parshottam Rupala, and state BJP president C R Patil will be attending the meet. Around 10,000 Patidar businessmen and over seven lakh people are scheduled to attend the meet. The role of community business people in nation-building, skill development, women entrepreneurship, and other themes will be discussed in several sessions. The BJP is likely to utilise the occasion to emphasise its acceptance among the Patidar population, which is politically and economically significant in the state.

The event is being held as part of Mission 2026, which aims to boost the Patidar community's socioeconomic development by facilitating internal and global alliances of small, medium, and large businesses; nurturing and supporting new entrepreneurs in the community; and providing training and respectable employment to the community's educated youth.

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