It is cruel to raise Goods and Services Tax (GST) on items of essential consumption when inflation is so high, the Congress said on Wednesday even as former party chief Rahul Gandhi asserted that the Prime Minister should withdraw it.
Responding to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s series of 14 tweets in which she had claimed that the 5% tax [on pre-packaged goods] was levied after a nod from all States, including the non-BJP ruled ones like Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh put out 10 tweets in a point-by-point rebuttal.
