Chidambaram: It took 4 months for BJP to get Commonsense; GST

On Saturday, Former finance minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram took a dig at BJP and said that it took 4 months and 10 days time for the government to get commonsense. He said “4 months and 10 days is taken for commonsense to germinate, flower and ripen into a fruit”.

The former finance minister’s remarks came a day after the GST Council removed 178 items from the highest 28% category.

Scores of mass consumption items such as detergent, shampoo and chocolates will become cheaper, as the panel decided on Friday that only so-called sin goods should be taxed the most under the new multi-rate system.

The Congress was opposing GST and Demonitisation from the start and has criticized the BJP for wrongly implementing GST in the mid year.