MUMBAI: More than a month ahead of the 2017 Gujarat assembly polls, BJP ’s Muslim wing in Maharashtra is taking a team of over 250 workers to campaign in PM Narendra Modi ’s home state.Muslims in Gujarat have traditionally backed Congress but BJP is pulling out all stops to wean them away. The first batch of Muslims workers will leave the city for Gujarat on November 4 or 5. “Gujarat has largely been free from communal riots in the last three years or so the party has ruled the Centre. Modi’s ‘sabka saath sabka vikas’ is the biggest plank on which the party is fighting elections. Several schemes of both the Centre and state government have benefited the minorities and we will try to convince the Muslim electorate,” said Mumbai BJP vice-president Haider Azam.Polls for the 182-member Gujarat assembly will take place in two phases, December 9 (89 seats) and December 14 (93 seats). The results will be out on December 18. “So far, many Muslims have supported BJP silently. This time we are telling them to openly support the party,” said president of BJP Minority Morcha Waseem Khan.