West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee threatens to hit the roads if GST on insurance premiums is not rolled back

New Delhi, August 2

Echoing Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gandkari, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday demanded rollback of GST on life insurance and health insurance premiums and threatened to hit the roads if the Central government did not pay heed to the demand.

‘Our demand to Government of India is to roll back GST from life insurance and medical insurance premiums on grounds of people’s health imperatives,’ CM Mamata Banerjee wrote on X.

‘This GST is bad because it adversely affects the people’s ability to take care of their basic vital needs,’ the Trinamool Congress supremo said.

‘If Government of India does not roll back the anti-people GST, we will be bound to hit the road,’ she warned.

Earlier, Gadkari, much to the surprise of political observers, wrote to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, urging her to withdraw the 18 per cent GST on life and health insurance premiums.

Gadkati’s letter to Sitharaman has gone viral on social media.