Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 29
The Congress will skip the GST rollout event the government is holding in the Central Hall of Parliament at midnight on Friday.
The decision, top sources said, was taken by Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday in consultation with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other senior leaders, who felt the rush to mount a dramatic rollout of a half-baked scheme was not a good idea and was not in favour of either the consumers or traders.
Manmohan Singh, whom the government invited to sit on the dais during the special launch event, will also give the ceremony the miss.
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Asked if Singh would attend, a senior Congress leader said, “When the party decides to do something everyone follows the decision.”Trinamool Congress has already announced its decision to boycott the event.
The Left leaders are also not inclined to attend the special GST meeting and are set to skip it, along with some other Opposition parties.
CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury has already questioned the government on “hurrying” into introducing GST and recalled that the BJP had opposed the system when it was in the opposition. With PTI
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