Following former All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi’s foot step, Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) on Sunday issued a second episode of video through social media platforms like facebook, twitter, instagram to attract people’s attention on poor condition of economy of the Country and said that Goods and Services Tax (GST) is an attack on poor.
JPCC Chief and Food Supply Minister, Rameshwar Oraon said by releasing the video that the social media platforms that the Central Government is completely responsible for the present economic crisis. The GST is a major attack on the unorganized economy, earlier it was the idea of a UPA Government which was very simple with minimum tax, standard and GST of NDA put four different tax slabs up to 28 per cent which is difficult and complex to understand, he added.
“NDA’s GST, small and medium traders cannot fill the tax and those who are big companies can fill it easily. What is the result of NDA’s GST, at present the Central Government is not able to give GST money to the states. The Central Government is not able to give money to the employees of the State, then GST is absolutely failed but it is not just failed It is an attack on the poor to small and medium traders. GST is not a tax system. GST is a big attack on the poor of India. NDA’s GST is taking care of ten to twenty biggest industrialists of India. The result is at present that the Indian Government is unable to provide GST compensation amount to the states. We have to identify this matter together and we will all have to stand against it,” said Oraon.
Speaking on the issue Congress Legislature Party Leader cum Rural Development Minister, Alamgir Alam said releasing the video on his social media platforms said that due to the wrong decisions of the Modi Government, today any state of the Country is not getting their GST compensation amount.
“Now the situation is that there are no new jobs for the youths of the Country. The path of new jobs is closed, the job occupation and middle class families are dying every day,” he added.
JPCC Spokesperson Alok Kumar Dubey, Lal Kishorenath Shahdeo and Rajesh Gupta posted the video of Rahul Gandhi through their social media and said that in the tenure of the Central Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 12 crore employment disappeared.