Vol. 3, Issue 7, Part J (2017)

Abstract
The growing popularity of social media has raised the opportunity for exploring and tracking the response of new reforms and policies in India. Social media has been used profoundly all over the world for analysis of political campaigns, stock market data, new product launch, movie release etc. Many researchers have been analyzing the tweets by citizens of a nation on Twitter which is a microblogging website where users read and write millions of tweets on a variety of topics on daily basis. In this paper, Twitter has been used as a forum to understand the sentiments of citizens of India towards recently launched Goods and Services Tax by Indian Government on 1^st July 2017. The tweets originating in India on 30^th June and 1^st July have been analyzed. The emotions of public in terms of anger, anticipation, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise have been extracted based on their live opinion.