TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Veteran BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has launched a fresh attack on the government, saying Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had not applied his mind while rolling out GST and should be removed from his post. Sinha, who served as Finance Minister in the Vajpayee government, said demonetisation has not achieved its goal of flushing black money out of the system.
He also charged the current regime with resorting to lies on the note ban and the new tax regime. “The Finance Minister did not apply his mind while rolling out the Goods and Services Tax and that’s why he is tinkering with GST every day…,” Sinha told reporters on the sidelines of an event organised by former Bihar speaker Uday Narayan Choudhary on reservations.
Jaitley, he added, has made a mess of GST. “The Prime Minister should bring in a new Finance Minister. I am saying this with full responsibility,” Sinha said. The former Union minister’s comment came on a day the GST Council chaired by Jaitley met in Guwahati to lower the tax rate on many household items — from the top 28 per cent slab to 18 per cent. “Now the government is saying that out of 227 items, tax rates will be brought down from 28 to 18 per cent on around 200 items,” Sinha said.
