A boy waves a flag of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a rally addressed by Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, prime ministerial candidate for and Gujarat's chief minister, in Jammu December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's main opposition party is considering a measure to scrap, or reduce, income tax as a plank in an election manifesto designed to win over crucial middle-class and urban voters before a national election due by May.
The step would mostly benefit wealthy urban voters who have increasingly switched support to the anti-graft Common Man's Party led by Arvind Kejriwal, who last month shocked mainstream parties by becoming chief minister of Delhi.
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