Congress not to go to special midnight meeting on GST

New Delhi, Jun 29 The Congress today decided to avoid the special midnight June 30 meeting gathered by the government on GST execution.

Party's senior representative Satyavrat Chaturvedi said "the Congress won't go to the exceptional GST meeting on GST usage."

The choice came after Congress President Sonia Gandhi met former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alongside different pioneers today.

The gathering has been in an issue over going to the exceptional midnight occasion in Parliament on June 30 to check the usage of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and has had boundless dialogs with different gatherings additionally, which are probably going to stick to this same pattern.

Trinamool Congress has effectively declared its choice to boycott the event.

Sources said Congress pioneers measured its choices as a gathering inside the gathering felt that the GST was the gathering's brainchild that has been presently assumed control by the decision BJP, and along these lines favored going to the uncommon meeting.

Notwithstanding, a few pioneers restricting it feel that the GST is being implemented in a scramble and all viewpoints have not been thought about prompting provocation of mall traders and businessmen and thus, the party should abstain.

Sources additionally say that the Congress was evidently maddened with Modi attempting to copy India's initially Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's midnight "tryst with destiny" speech on the eve of Independence.

The Left pioneers are likewise not slanted to go to the extraordinary GST meeting and are set to skip it, alongside some other restriction parties.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has as of now scrutinized the legislature on "hustling" into presenting GST and reviewed that the decision BJP had restricted the framework when it was in the resistance.

The legislature will use the roundabout molded Central Hall to dispatch the new tax collection framework that is set to drastically re-shape the over USD 2 trillion economy.

A gong will be sounded at midnight to introduce the GST.

Modi will be the key speaker at the capacity.

President Pranab Mukherjee is likewise prone to go to the capacity, where previous Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and H D Deve Gowda have been welcomed as well.