It took 4 months for common sense to germinate on GST: Chidambaram
Finance Minister
Chidambaram also took a dig at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that the government has realised their mistake because of the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections.
Former Finance Minister and Congress leader PChidambaram on Saturday lashed out at Modi's government after the government brought down the 28 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) slab to just 50 products against earlier227 products.
In a series of tweets, Chidambaram took potshots at Modi government.
"It took four months and ten days for commonsense to germinate, flower and ripen into a fruit," the Congress leader said in the first of several tweets posted on his Twitter handle on Friday.
"Congress is vindicated. I am vindicated. The merit of capping GST at 18 percent is now recognised," Chidambaram tweeted on Friday.
The BJP) government at the Centre realisedits mistake as Gujarat Assembly electionis around the corner, he further said.
Responding to Chidambaram's allegations,Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said GSTwas adopted taking all political parties into consideration and every change that has been made was done after looking into one's needs.
Congress has just been trying to misinterpret the fact.
"Modiji government listens to everything that public says and respond to people.The GST was implemented with the agreement of all political parties. We are ready if there is a need for any change like the Centre did in yesterday's GST Council meeting. The Congress party is trying to misinterpret the fact," new agency ANI quotedSitharaman as saying.
The rearrangements in the tax system were carried out at the 23rd GST Council meeting headed by the finance minister, at Guwahati on Friday.