Manmohan Singh awards Jaitley-led GST Council
'Gabbar Singh Tax, Rahul?' asks BJP after Manmohan Singh awards Jaitley-led GST Council
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley accepted the Business Line "Change-maker of The Year Award" for the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council from former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday.
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'Gabbar Singh Tax, Rahul?' asks BJP after Manmohan Singh awards Jaitley-led GST Council
The Congress has repeatedly criticised the BJP for hastily implementing the tax regime in 2017 and thereby creating hardships for small businesses and ordinary citizens.
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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley accepted the Business Line "Change-maker of The Year Award" for the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council from former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday. The award was given by the daily picked the GST Council for its work towards streamlining the tax structure in India and reducing the overall tax burden on consumers.
The BJP immediately grabbed the "optic opportunity" offered by the award to ridicule the Opposition party Congress, which has often called the GST a Gabbar Singh Tax. The BJP took to Twitter to launch a salvo at Congress President Rahul Gandhi who has called the current the GST regime a "badly conceived and terribly executed" idea and promised to junk it in the present form.
Though the former PM didn't speak on the occasion, the BJP tried its best to seize the opportunity by attacking his party. "Today GST COUNCIL got BUSINESS LINE-CHANGE MAKER OF YEAR AWARD. Presented to Finance Minister Shri @arunjaitley by Dr Manmohan Singh. Gabbar Singh Tax, Rahul Gandhi?," tweeted the BJP.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley accepted the Business Line "Change-maker of The Year Award" for the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council from former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday.
twitter-logo BusinessToday.In Last Updated: March 16, 2019 | 16:48 IST
'Gabbar Singh Tax, Rahul?' asks BJP after Manmohan Singh awards Jaitley-led GST Council
The Congress has repeatedly criticised the BJP for hastily implementing the tax regime in 2017 and thereby creating hardships for small businesses and ordinary citizens.
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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley accepted the Business Line "Change-maker of The Year Award" for the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council from former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday. The award was given by the daily picked the GST Council for its work towards streamlining the tax structure in India and reducing the overall tax burden on consumers.
The BJP immediately grabbed the "optic opportunity" offered by the award to ridicule the Opposition party Congress, which has often called the GST a Gabbar Singh Tax. The BJP took to Twitter to launch a salvo at Congress President Rahul Gandhi who has called the current the GST regime a "badly conceived and terribly executed" idea and promised to junk it in the present form.
Though the former PM didn't speak on the occasion, the BJP tried its best to seize the opportunity by attacking his party. "Today GST COUNCIL got BUSINESS LINE-CHANGE MAKER OF YEAR AWARD. Presented to Finance Minister Shri @arunjaitley by Dr Manmohan Singh. Gabbar Singh Tax, Rahul Gandhi?," tweeted the BJP.
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