New Delhi : The opposition Congress has dismissed has ”speculative” the reports that the Modi sarkar plans a special session of Parliament for passage of the GST bill.
“Yes, we have also been reading that in the papers, but so far no one from the government side has even said a word about it to us. Courtesy demands that the opposition should be consulted if the government wants to hold such a session,” said Congress floor leader in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Stoutly denying the BJP charge that the Congress was hurting the economy by not supporting the GST bill, Azad mocked the government for coming to this conclusion.” The growth of the economy just does not depend on one or two bills. If we were to accept this argument, then the BJP has been hurting the economy for quite some years. When it opposed the FDI in insurance sector or the GST during the UPA years, was the BJP hurting the economy?” said Azad.
Pointing out the real growth of the Indian economy has always taken place during the Congress years – first in the Nehru years when he laid the foundation of a modern, developed India unlike Pakistan that depends on America and China for everything, then in the Indira years when the green revolution was ushered in, followed by the Rajiv years when the country embarked on the IT revolution, and then during the Rao-Manmohan regimes when the country gained from its liberalised economic policies.” At every stage the BJP was opposing these ideas. How can they even talk of the Congress hurting the economy,” he added. I
