CPI(M) senior leader and former Rajya Sabha Member P. Madhu on Monday alleged that the Union government was looting public money with exorbitant taxes on essential commodities. The prices of rice, edible oils, pulses and other commodities were almost doubled with the levy of Goods and Services Tax (GST) although the previous government exempted most of the essential goods from tax net, he said.
He was speaking at a public meeting organised here as part of a nationwide agitation ‘Desha Rakshana Bheri’ to highlight the ‘misdeeds’ of the government. Over 5,000 party activists and sympathisers of Left parties attended the meeting.
