Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to reconsider the move to levy GST on unbranded and pre-packed food items, asserting that the State had “vehemently” opposed the levy that “is going to hit the people hard”, in a letter sent earlier this month.
Mr. Gehlot said the State had requested the GST Council as well as its Group of Ministers (GoM), led by Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Bommai, which proposed the tax on unbranded food items such as curd, lassi and food grains, to defer deliberations on these levies as it was “not the right time” in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
