Cong wants govt to open channels for talks with opposition on

Congress wants the government to open channels of discussion with it on the GST bill to address its concerns and ensure passage of the contentious legislation during the winter session of Parliament likely to begin next month, party general secretary Digvijay Singh has said.
The senior Congress leader, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance that went into the GST bill, said that the party wants the key economic reform measure to be passed.
"But we have given some dissenting notes in the Standing Committee (on the Goods and Services Bill). The Finance Minister must talk to the members of the Standing Committee to resolve the issues. Arun Jaitley has made a statement that why Congress party is opposing the bill which is almost the same as brought by the Congress in 2006-7.

"Question arises that if Jaitley feels this then why the BJP did not allow its passage from 2006 to 2014? Why he is not opening channels of discussion for resolving issues raised in the dissenting notes?" he told PTI in an interview.
Asked if the Congress will stall Parliament's proceedings over contentious issues the way it did during the monsoon session, Singh said," I don't know. Debate, discussion and decision is part of Parliament and that should take place."
Congress had rallied several opposition parties to force a near washout of the monsoon session demanding resignation of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje over the Lalit Modi controversy and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan for the Vyapam scam.

It has also been demanding resignation of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh in connection with Public Distribution System (PDS) scam in the state and party leaders have said they would continue to press their demands.
Singh, a former Madhya Pradesh chief minister, is a petitioner in the case in which the Supreme Court ordered a CBI probe into the Vyapam scandal, a huge racket involving securing government jobs and admission to educational institutions through a nexus of politicians, officers and middlemen.