Tamil Nadu has “consistently raised” these issues in Parliament as well as in other fora and it was largely due to the concerns voiced by the state that many of the provisions of the constitutional amendment bill were suitably modified, he said. Meanwhile, Opposition Congress and the government were involved in a debate over Tamil Nadu implementing GST. When Congress Legislature Party leader K R Ramasamy wanted to know “whether Tamil Nadu was supporting or opposing GST,” Veeramani said many changes had been accommodated in GST as per the state’s insistence. He said whatever issues can be discussed in the GST Council and solutions could be arrived. Finance Minister D Jayakumar, who intervened, said there will be a “constitutional breakdown” if a state did not accept a central law.

Source: Indian Express July 12, 2017 12:22 UTC