Modi govt integrated the nation economically via GST, says Arun Jaitley

Said economically weaker states such as J&K, Bihar, WB welcomed prospect of destination-based tax

While the nation’s political integration was initiated by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) ideological founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the Narendra Modi-led government has been able to integrate the nation economically through the goods and services tax (GST), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.

Addressing a gathering of BJP functionaries and workers from the party’s Delhi organisation on Mookerjee’s birth anniversary, Jaitley said that even Jammu and Kashmir had been brought into the common taxation fold.

The J&K Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution to allow the implementation of the GST in the state. The state finance minister had said constitutional amendments