{"id":73113,"date":"2025-09-06T15:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:46:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:46:04","slug":"x-post-on-proposed-drop-in-gst-rates-for-39-bidis-39-kpcc-chief-admits-39-mistake-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=73113","title":{"rendered":"X post on proposed drop in GST rates for &#39;bidis&#39;: KPCC chief admits &#39;mistake&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X post on proposed drop in GST rates for &#39;bidis&#39;: KPCC chief admits &#39;mistake&#39;<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 6-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Thiruvanthapuram, Sep 6 (PTI) The KPCC president, Sunny Joseph, on Saturday admitted that there was a &#8220;mistake&#8221; and &#8220;lack of caution&#8221; while posting the &#8220;bidis and Bihar&#8221; jibe on the social media handle of the party&#39;s state unit, a day after it was deleted following a political backlash.<br \/>\nJoseph said the &#39;X&#39; post was deleted and an apology was tendered by the social media team as directed by the state leadership.<br \/>\nKerala state unit of the Congress in a recent post on X, allegedly drew parallels between Bihar and Bidi (a tobacco product) in the wake of the recent GST reforms, and triggered sharp reactions from the BJP.<br \/>\nThe now d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=54822\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X post on proposed drop in GST rates for &#8216;bidis&#8217;: KPCC chief admits &#8216;mistake&#8217;GSTDated:- 6-9-2025PTIThiruvanthapuram, Sep 6 (PTI) The KPCC president, Sunny Joseph, on Saturday admitted that there was a &#8220;mistake&#8221; and &#8220;lack of caution&#8221; while posting the &#8220;bid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}