{"id":74658,"date":"2025-12-24T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:31:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:31:03","slug":"govt-has-given-free-hand-to-monopolies-shackled-small-businesses-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=74658","title":{"rendered":"Govt has given free hand to monopolies, shackled small businesses: Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Govt has given free hand to monopolies, shackled small businesses: Rahul Gandhi<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 24-12-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Dec 24 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that the government has given a free hand to monopolies and shackled the small and medium businesses with chains of bureaucracy and flawed policies like wrong GST.<br \/>\n In a post on X, Gandhi shared his conversation with representatives of the Vaish community who are primarily engaged in business and have traditionally been job and wealth creators in the country.<br \/>\n The representatives of the Vaishya community held an extensive business dialogue with the Leader of Opposition, and placed before him the serious challenges currently facing trade and business<\/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=65771\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p> backbone of the country&#39;s trade,&#8221; Gandhi said.<br \/>\n The business persons who met Gandhi came from a wide range of industries, including footwear manufacturing, agricultural products, industrial electricals, paper and stationery, travel, stone cutting, chemicals and hardware.<br \/>\n Expressing deep concern over the economic policies of the Modi government, the representatives alleged that the policies constitute a direct attack on small traders, MSMEs and India&#39;s production-based economy. They asserted that this is not a policy failure but a deliberately designed conspiracy aimed at benefiting a handful of corporate houses while pushing crores of businesses to the brink of ruin.<br \/>\n Rahul Gandhi has warned that a monopoly and duopoly-driven governanc<\/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=65771\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Govt has given free hand to monopolies, shackled small businesses: Rahul GandhiGSTDated:- 24-12-2025PTINew Delhi, Dec 24 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that the government has given a free hand to monopolies and shackled the small<\/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-74658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74658","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=74658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}