GST: Congress accuses BJP government of putting up‘ false smokescreen’

“The government has no interest in passing the GST Bill. It is interested only in doing politics on GST,” he said.

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Narendra Modi and Arun jaitley accused by Congress for obstructing GST.

A DAY after it termed Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu’s meeting with Sonia Gandhi as “optics”, Congress on Friday accused the BJP and the government of putting up a “false smokescreen” on GST. It argued that it was the RSS and Swadeshi Jagran Manch that have been red flagging the legislation all along.

The party dug out speeches of Gujarat Finance Minister Saurabh Patel before the Empowered Committee of Finance Ministers, which looked into the GST, to argue that the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government had stonewalled the legislation.

“Deception, deceit and double-speak have become hallmarks of the Modi government vis-à-vis implementation of GST as also other economic reforms. The BJP government, including Prime Minister and the Finance Minister, has been putting up a false smokescreen by accusing Congress of obstructing GST, while the real truth is that GST stands consistently red-flagged for last nine years by RSS and Swadeshi Jagran Manch,” said Congress spokesperson Shaktisinh Gohil.

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He said the Gujarat government under Modi had consistently opposed the GST proposal of the UPA government, saying it was against the federal spirit of Constitution as also the rights of states to fiscal autonomy.

“Modi and the BJP government are now camouflaging paralysis of governance and failure of leadership over the last 19 months to misguide people by stating that current day grave economic crisis as also deflation of economy is happening because of non-passage of the GST,” Gohil said.

“The government has no interest in passing the GST Bill. It is interested only in doing politics on GST,” he said.

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