like demonetisation the “unleashing of Goods and Services Tax” without allowing the nation to prepare for it was going to be an “epic blunder” for which the country will have to pay dearly, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said while her party Trinamool Congress has decided to boycott the midnight launch of the GST regime in a special session of Parliament on June 30.
Banerjee’s statement came at a time when her senior Cabinet colleague Partho Chatterjee extended “full support” to the June 30 textile trade strike which will be a part of all-India textile strike. “We have full support for the strike because it is for the cause of the common and medium scale traders who her standing on the verge of disaster.”
Incidentally the Chief Minister had from the inception of her rule in 2011 had “oppose any kind of bandh” which she called “negative politics and impedes development.”