"The NC core group, which met here today expressed grave concern over the extension of Constitutional Amendment 101 of the Constitution of India to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
"The core group meeting chaired by NC working president Omar Abdullah feared that the intent of the state government can have wider ramifications on the state's fiscal autonomy and will impinge upon the residuary powers enjoyed by the state," a party spokesman said here.
"The state government should call an all-party meeting and have a threadbare discussion on the form of the GST regime so as to allay the fears and concerns of the various political parties and put the entire concept in public domain so that there is an open debate with the stakeholders before rushing to summon a session of the state legislature," the spokesman said.
The core group noted that the present Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu, who today is the strongest votary of GST implementation in the state, is on the record having said "come GST and neither the state legislature nor the state cabinet will have a say on J-K taxation", the spokesman said.
He said the core group demanded that the finance minister must come clean on the issue and not hoodwink the people of the state.
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