Congress slams BJP for delaying GST, picks holes in NDA bill

The Congress slammed the government for diluting the original spirit of the ambitious GST bill and charged the BJP with deliberately opposing the legislation over the past several years which robbed the country of around Rs 12 lakh core.After finance minister Arun Jaitley moved four supporting bills to the main GST bill in the Lok Sabha, Congress member M Veerappa Moily went on to list the various shortcomings in the reform legislation being dubbed as a game changer by the government.Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present in the house as Moily spoke. The former law minister reminded the BJP how the saffron party had opposed the legislation when the previous UPA had brought it eight years ago."Seven to eight years have passed after the erstwhile UPA government wanted to bring the GST bill. Some parties then felt it should be halted due to reasons best known to them," he said.The delay in implementing GST deprived the country of Rs 12 lakh crore, said Moily asking the government who ..