Shah attacks Cong on 'pakoda' jibe, terms problems in GST 'initial hiccups'
BY Agencies5 Feb 2018 7:30 PM IST
Agencies5 Feb 2018 10:20 PM IST
New Delhi: Attacking the Congress on its jibe at the comment by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that even selling 'pakodas' was a form of employment, BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said it was better to sell 'pakodas' than be unemployed.
Initiating the debate on Motion of Thanks for the President's address, Shah also attacked the Congress which described the Goods and Services Tax as 'Gabbar Singh tax' and opposed the Triple Talaq Bill and the Bill to provide a Constitutional status to the OBC commission.
Shah urged the Opposition to rise above politics to solve pressing issues facing the country as he claimed that the Modi government was moving towards realising the vision of a 'New India'.
Objecting to the jibe made by the former Finance Minister Chidambaram at the comment by Modi that even selling 'pakodas' was a form of employment, BJP President slammed the Opposition party for comparing 'pakoda' sellers with beggars.
'I think it is better to be a labourer or sell 'pakodas' than to be unemployed. There is no shame in selling 'pakodas'," he said in course of his speech, amid the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Shah also gave a sharp reply to Congress over its frequent attacks on the Government over the issue on unemployment and said that in the 70 years of post-Independence India, Congress was in power for 55 years. He further said that the problem still remains and nothing was done by the Congress government during 55 years of its rule. We have been in power for only eight years and yet we have been taking constructive steps to solve the problem.
"This problem didn't suddenly emerge," he said.
Shah proudly made a clear statement that there were "three cancers" - dynastic politics, casteism and appeasement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has uprooted all of them from the Indian political system.
Shah also made an objection to the use of the word 'Gabbar Singh Tax' for the GST, Shah said,'Gabbar Singh was a Hindi film dacoit. How can you call a legal tax dacoity?''
Claiming that the Congress was adopting a different stance towards GST in the GST council meeting than in Parliament, he said, 'In the 23 meetings of the GST council till now, all proposals have been passed unanimously and not a single proposal has required voting.'
Terming the problems being claimed by the opposition in the implementation of the GST 'teething troubles' he said once the initial hiccups were over and that the GST would benefit the country.
Shah asks the opposition to support the implementation of the GST and highlighted that 'on some issues, we need to rise above party lines.'
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