Opposition-ruled States’ demands that rate slab and rate cuts on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) be built in with mechanisms to ensure benefits were passed on to consumers and State governments were “perfectly legitimate”, and “bolstered” by papers published by the Union Finance Ministry’s National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday (August 30, 2025).
The Congress general secretary in charge of communications posted a statement on social media about the States’ demands ahead of the GST Council meeting next week, adding that the Congress hoped the meeting would “not merely be a headline-grabbing exercise”, but would “advance the cause of cooperative federalism”.
