Ahead of the winter Parliament session which is to commence from tomorrow, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu said economic reforms and the contentious GST (Goods and Services Tax) bill is the main agenda of the Centre.
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“And when the tariff rate has to be mentioned in the Constitution itself, it is a flawed architecture because the GST with flawed architecture can actually damage the system much more than it can benefit”, he said.
READ ALSO:What is GST and why it matters to you The government has also reached out to non-Congress parties in the opposition – SP, Trinamool Congress, AIADMK and Telangana Rashtra Samiti – which are sympathetic to the need for early passage of the legislation.
Congress leader R.P.N. Singh told reporters here that the government should address the party’s concerns which were in favour of consumers.
The Government has a long shopping list of bills to pass in the winter session.
The other disputes are minor: ensure compensation to states for five years; give compensation to municipalities; bring liquor, tobacco and electricity under GST in five years; and establish a permanent mechanism to redress disputes. However, the government feels backtracking on one per cent tax would jeopardize the GST consensus it has hammered with the manufacturing states.
Talking about another Congress recommendation where judges may choose these problems to produce a community, Jaitley said tax was among the not many forces the suggestion might lead to that energy likewise moving to surfaces within the world’s greatest democracy and also that Parliament has. “But in the interests of the Opposition unity, we feel in the national interest, the government must heed what the Congress and the Left are saying”.
The government, at the same time, feels that while it has reached out to the Congress and is willing to engage even Congress president Sonia Gandhi (FM Arun Jaitley has already met Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad and spoken to Anand Sharma), the Congress may still disrupt the proceedings and not allow Parliament to run at all.
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“We have introduced the GST bill in Parliament and are hopeful of rolling it out in 2016”, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Singapore on Tuesday.
