Congress-ruled states to demand GST changes

Rahul Gandhi says Narendra Modi has destroyed the country's economy with two 'torpedoes'

The Congress party leadership on Monday asked finance ministers of state governments run by the party to be more forthright in criticism of the Narendra Modi government’s “flawed” goods and services tax (GST). It also wants these people to move amendments to improve it at the next GST Council meeting, on November 10 in Guwahati.

The Congress-run Punjab government’s minister for finance and planning, Manpreet Singh Badal, said he expected the Centre to be more “amenable” to suggestions by the Congress at the next Council meeting. He said the Modi government had shed its “arrogance” and proclivity to “ride roughshod” after