Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday dubbed the implementation of the Good and Services Tax (GST) a “tamasha”, saying the reform was being rushed through in a “half-baked” manner as a “self-promotional spectacle”. “A reform that holds great potential is being rushed through in a half-baked way with a self-promotional spectacle #GSTTamasha,” he said on Twitter. Congress leader Anand Sharma said the GST was conceptualised by the Congress and the BJP stalled it for seven years. Gandhi said India deserves a GST rollout that does not put crores of its ordinary citizens, small businesses and traders through tremendous pain and anxiety. He claimed that unlike demonetisation, GST was a reform that the Congress had championed and backed from the very beginning.

Source: Hindustan Times June 30, 2017 11:03 UTC