SP uncertain about going to GST launch

Lucknow, Jun 30 With hours to go before the GST launch, the Samajwadi Party (SP) was uncertain about whether it would go to the midnight function in Delhi.

"Regardless of whether we go to the midnight GST launch or not will be known later in the day," said senior SP pioneer Naresh Agarwal.

The Rajya Sabha MP included completely that his gathering opposes GST and would not support it.

Agarwal had yesterday termed GST a "black law" that was "similar to re-establishment of the East India Company in the nation".

His colleague, senior gathering pioneer Rajendra Chaudhary, nonetheless, said SP had always been in favour of the tax reform.

The gathering had bolstered it in Parliament and in addition the Vidhan Sabha, Chaudhary said when reached.

There was some vagueness about the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) also. BSP sources said party president Mayawati had not gone to Delhi and was in the state capital. Be that as it may, senior BSP pioneer Satish Chandra Misra was in New Delhi, sources called attention to.

A few parties, including the Congress and the Left parties, have chosen to boycott the occasion.

Fund Minister Arun Jaitley has requested that opposition parties to reconsider their choice to skirt the GST dispatch, saying they were all consulted on the circuitous tax reform and couldn't flee from it.

"I trust each political party will reexamine and return to its choice on not taking part in the launch event to be sorted out in the Central Hall of Parliament," he said.

The GST, being charged as the greatest tax reform since Independence, will subsume all backhanded state and focal tolls, making India a single market.