New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the trust of states, which made the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) possible.

Chaudhary added that the government is now introducing new reforms to simplify the system for the people.

Speaking to ANI, Pankaj Chaudhary said, "The process of implementing GST was going on before Prime Minister Modi came to power. But somewhere, due to a lack of trust of all the states in the Government of India, things were not working out. After PM Modi came to power, we won the trust of our states across the country and implemented GST and also ran it very efficiently for 8 years."

"Prime Minister said that now, since a...