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Govt attacks Congress for stalling GST bill
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SME Times News Bureau | 24 Aug, 2015
Describing the passage of the stalled Goods and Services Tax Bill as a
parameter to measure the maturity of India's political system, union
finance minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday made a veiled attack on the
Congress for "stalling the country's progress".
"The maturity of
our political system is being tested. Not only the government in power
but most regional parties also supported the GST move. But one political
party wanted to use disruption as a tactic to prevent it - otherwise
there would have been a consensus," he said during an interactive event
here organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce.
The minister
termed the last session of parliament as "somewhat disappointing but
reasonably educative" as the GST Bill could not be pushed through
despite a consensus being build around it.
"People will see
reason and when they see reason this whole polarisation between an India
which wants to grow and miniscule minority which wants to block... I
hope it will instill some sense in those who want to block," he said.
Comparing
the bicameral legislative structure between India and Britain, Jaitley
said since the upper house of parliament there is not elected, the House
of Commons or the lower house can push its bills despite the House of
Lords opposing it. However, since both the houses in Indian Parliament
are elected - directly and indirectly - a single house' diktat cannot
evolve a Bill into an Act. The minister, nevertheless, expressed
optimism about it.
"I do hope as the world's largest democracy
we get out of this process of stalemate between directly and indirectly
elected houses," he said.
The minister further blamed the former
UPA government for stalling India's growth alleging that the
Congress-led regime adopted the policy of redistributing resources
without increasing productivity.
"We had slowed down in the past
few years because we tried alternate growth models," Jaitley said
adding the UPA growth model propaganda looked attractive "as a slogan"
but could not be executed at the ground level.
Jaitley, who also
holds the portfolio of information and broadcasting, said
consumer-centric states like West Bengal will benefit if GST is
enforced.
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Government's arrogance is responsible for the washout
Linzhi | Tue Aug 25 08:29:28 2015
What is hampering the current government in achieving anything is its utter arrogance and disregard to the opposition, to the democratic institutions, to democracy in general. The chest thumping, ridiculing the opposition leaders, harassing anyone who opposes their idea, labeling the entire opposition or anyone who questions them, however wrong they are, as anti-nationals etc. is unique to this PM and the government. Not contended with his rhetoric at home, the PM doesn't lose an opportunity to blame and malign the opposition and opposition leaders on foreign soil. In fact this appears to be his main agenda of foreign tours. After the monsoon session instead of correcting themselves and liaising with the opposition on arriving at a common ground to pass crucial legislation, the PM asks his ministers to go all over India and inform (or misinform) the people how bad and how anti-national, anti-development the opposition is as if BJP is the only born patriotic party .
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