Sangh Parivar affiliates demand changes in GST, slam NITI Aayog

Demands were made to ensure MSMEs continue to get excise exemptions

In their continuing strategy to provide opposition from within to the Narendra Modi government’s economic policies, a Sangh Parivar outfit on Friday raised concerns about the impact of the goods and services tax (GST) on micro and small enterprises, while another outfit accused the NITI Aayog of pursuing an agenda set by multinational companies.

Laghu Udyog Bharati, an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) which represents micro and small industries, on Friday demanded “modifications” in the Central GST Act to ensure that micro and small enterprises, or MSEs, continue to get excise exemptions.

“We want GST to be modified.