Congress ministers excluded from GoM on GST, says Gehlot

New Delhi, June 1

On behalf of the Congress, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot alleged that its members of the GST Council were deliberately kept out of a Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to deliberate on zero duty on Covid-related items.

“The Congress has three members in the GST Council. A deliberate attempt has been made to keep the principal Opposition party, the Congress, out of the GoM set up by the Centre after the Council meet on May 28,” said Gehlot in a social media post. “Keeping out the Congress members is most unfortunate and strikes at the very roots of cooperative federalism,” he added.

Gehlot also took up cudgels on behalf of Mamata Banerjee and Stalin and said their Finance Ministers, who like their counterparts from Chhattisgarh, Punjab and Rajasthan, were kept out of the GoM because they had taken a stand contrary to that of proposed agenda at the GST Council meet on May 28. — TNS