BJP on Saturday took a dig on Congress President Rahul Gandhi tweeting a picture of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley being awarded the 'Changemaker of the Year' on the behalf of GST council by the former Prime Minister and senior Congress leader Dr. Manmohan Singh. The award has been given by 'The Hindu Business Line'.
BJP didn't leave a chance to take a dig at the Congress President who regularly terms the GST as 'Gabbar Singh Tax'.
"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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Emphasizing the importance of GST and the difficulties the current government has faced to implement the GST, a BJP leader also praised the former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
"The optic value of the moment is huge. Of course, Dr. Singh is a gracious man and he knows how difficult the exercise to subsume a slew of taxes in the country under one umbrella GST was. The Finance Minister has ensured that the consensus rule was not breached and now almost 99 per cent commodities are off the high 28 per cent slab as the one tax for India moves towards lesser tax slabs than initially," said the BJP leader.
Dr. Manmohan Singh, however, in the past has criticized the poor implementation of the GST.