After GST Blitz, Nation Wakes Up to Loud Protests
Many traders feel the Centre’s hasty GST push could spell doom for the business community.
Hours after the Centre’s Goods and Services Tax bill came into effect, protests have broken out across the country over its implementation.
In Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad, Samajwadi Party workers staged a Rail Roko agitation, blocking the way of Gomti Ganga Express.
The picketers denounced GST, while adding that it was imposed in a unilateral manner and had a pernicious effect on the economy, much like the Centre’s demonetisation initiative.
Protests were also held in jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar, where a group of people demanded that the sensitive state be excluded from the ambit of a unified tax regime.
In Agra, traders compared GST to a premature baby, which they claimed “must not be allowed to live.”
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