BJP MP K Laxman led a 'Dhanyavaad Modi Ji' padayatra in Hyderabad, calling the GST slab reduction a festive gift from PM Modi and urging traders to support its implementation.
"During that time, we should see the situation. You used to criticise it so much, called it as Gabbar Singh Tax, whatever, leave that. The situation right now is that we implemented GST, and got second generation (reforms) too, and people are benefiting from this," he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a roadshow in Arunachal Pradesh's capital city, Itanagar, on Monday, with people flocking to the streets to greet him.
While speaking to ANI after the reforms came into effect, the Union Minister also highlighted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had worked to ensure public trust in the new system.
"From 2006-2014, for eight years, only one CM opposed the GST, and that CM became the Prime Minister in 2014 and took a U-turn and emerged as a messiah of GST in 2017," Ramesh, General Secretary incharge of communications in Congress, told ANI.
As the Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms come into effect on Monday, BJP leader CR Kesavan lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi while taking a jibe at the INDIA bloc, saying their motive is "Parivar Nirbhar Bharat".
As the assembly election approaches in Bihar, the political temperature in the state heated up as BJP MP Sanjay Jaiswal levelled serious allegations against Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor, accusing him of raising crores of rupees through shell companies.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha appealed to the youths of the state to create a mass movement against drug abuse and informed that the state government has undertaken a series of steps to make Tripura a Nesha Mukt state.
Telangana Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar on Sunday voiced serious concern over reports of an unprecedented increase in the U.S. H-1B visa fee, which is expected to affect thousands of Indian professionals--especially from Telangana and the wider IT community.
"The answer is very simple, it is because PM Modi believed in a vision for India, created the policies for that vision, and implemented them sincerely and then when those implementations have borne fruit, he has delivered the next stage of his promises which is to say that everything that a
Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal criticised RJD over an alleged objectionable remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's late mother at Tejashwi Yadav's rally. He said dismissing it as a worker's comment shows the alliance's leadership has become "unrestrained."