Mamata Banerjee declines Jaitley's GST invitation, calls rollout a blunder

Bengal CM equates tax rollout to demonetisation, says pan-India economy totally unprepared for it

Terming the scheduled rollout of the GST on July 1 as "another epic blunder of the Centre", the first one being demonetisation, West Bengal's chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, as a sign of protest of an early implementation, has decided not to accept union finance minister, Arun Jaitley's invitation of the celebration party on GST scheduled on June 30 at the Parliament House.

"Our parliamentary party has decided not to attend the 30th June, 2017 midnight programme at the Parliament House to celebrate GST, as a mark of protest", she said adding that the pan-India economy is not ready for the rollout