{"id":73597,"date":"2025-09-21T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:16:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:16:02","slug":"pm-must-take-responsibility-for-8-years-of-loot-answer-why-he-opposed-gst-as-gujarat-cm-sapkal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=73597","title":{"rendered":"PM must take responsibility for 8 years of \u2018loot\u2019, answer why he opposed GST as Gujarat CM: Sapkal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM must take responsibility for 8 years of \u2018loot\u2019, answer why he opposed GST as Gujarat CM: Sapkal<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 21-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Mumbai, Sep 21 (PTI) Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to take credit for the reduction in GST rates while ignoring the \u201ceconomic loot\u201d over the past eight years through higher levies.<br \/>\nSapkal said in a statement that Modi, who addressed the nation in the evening, claimed credit for slashing Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was the PM himself who in 2017 introduced exorbitantly high GST rates that burdened industries, traders and ordinary citizens. The GST collection has doubled to Rs 22 lakh crore in these years, h<\/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=56385\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p> a \u2018GST bachat utsav (savings festival)\u2019 will begin on Monday.<br \/>\nTargeting the PM\u2019s call for self-reliance, Sapkal alleged that Modi \u201cpreaches\u201d swadeshi while using foreign-made cars, watches, pens and phones. \u201cIf this is being projected as a savings festival, were the past eight years nothing but a loot festival,\u201d he asked.<br \/>\nSapkal also claimed that the PM\u2019s speech lacked enthusiasm and confidence.<br \/>\n\u201cThis may be a reflection of growing anger among people and the slogans of \u2018vote chor, gaddi chhod\u2019 resonating across the country. Instead of misleading speeches, the prime minister must sincerely address inflation, unemployment and the crisis in agriculture,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nCongress&#39; state unit spokesperson Sachin Sawant said<\/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=56385\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM must take responsibility for 8 years of \u2018loot\u2019, answer why he opposed GST as Gujarat CM: SapkalGSTDated:- 21-9-2025PTIMumbai, Sep 21 (PTI) Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to ta<\/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-73597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597","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=73597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}