TIL Desk/National/Srinagar/ The passage of the GST Bill by the Jammu and Kashmir legislature would be scripted in “golden letters” as it is a big sucess for the country’s democracy, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said today.
She also sought to allay apprehensions over the new tax regime, saying what is good for the country cannot be bad for Jammu and Kashmir and underlined the Centre didn’t change any word in the state’s Cabinet note on “how we protect our special status while implementing GST”.
“I am happy that without changing any word or character they sent it (Cabinet note) back to us in Presidential Order,” she said the state Legislative Council. Earlier in the day, the Jammu and Kashmir Goods and Services Tax Bill 2017, moved by Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu, was adopted by a voice vote.
The bill was moved in the Assembly after the Presidential Order which gave an assurance on preservation of the special status of the state guaranteed by Article 370 of the Constitution. Mehbooba recalled that her father and ex-chief minister Mufti Mohammd Sayeed used to say the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly was the most empowered House in the whole country.
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