Centre urges Congress to rethink stand on GST launch, Nitish too will skip event

Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Friday it was unfortunate that the Congress was distancing itself from the GST launch event, hoping the opposition party will rethink their stand.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil the new tax regime at midnight, replacing a messy mix of more than a dozen state and central levies that will unify the country’s $2 trillion economy and weave 1.3 billion people into a common market.

Opposition parties TMC, Congress and Left see undue haste in the implementation of the goods and services tax, causing hardships for millions of tiny neighbourhood shops that don’t even use a calculator. They have decided to boycott the gala event.

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