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Budget 2016: Arun Jaitley said that the Narendra Modi government will reach out to the Congress in the current session of Parliament to resolve the deadlock over the GST bill. Till date Rahul Gandhi's Congress has been castigating the government for the GST Bill not getting passed in Rajya Sabha. Rahul Gandhi has reiterated his party's stance that its support is guaranteed once the NDA accepts its conditions.
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Budget 2016: Arun Jaitley said, "As far as GST is concerned, every political party claims to be in favour of it. The Congress party had put some conditions. I think one condition still remains there. I will try to talk to them in the remaining of the Budget session of Parliament, and try to move ahead with the GST bill".
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Budget 2016: Arun Jaitley said the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) is the need of the hour and it has the capability to strengthen the Indian economy. "It is simple, wit ill help in expansion of revenue, states will get benefit out of it, business will have ease and it will facilitate seamless transfer of goods and services. (PTI)
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Arun Jaitley presented the Narendra Modi dispensation's third Union Budget. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other NDA constituents were all praise for it, others begged to differ. We look here at what the naysayers had to say. Here are the top 5 points to note:
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EPF tax rollback: "Whenever somebody is being oppressed wrongly or victimized, I tend to try and help those people. I felt that the salaried and the middle-class people were being hurt by the government. So, I decided to put some pressure on the government," Rahul Gandhi said. (PTI)
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