New Delhi/IBNS, Sept. 4 -- The Congress has provided a mixed response to the central government's major overhauling of the GST regime, which now has two main slabs instead of the previous four, media reports said.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh slammed the Modi government over the previous four slabs of GST.

Ramesh said the Congress had referred to the flawed GST 1.0 way back in 2017 but Prime Minister Narendra Modi allegedly did not pay attention to it.

He has also questioned the functionality of the GST Council as the skeleton of the new regime was spelled out by the Prime Minister during his Independence Day address on August 15.

He added, "Faced with a lack of buoyancy in private consumption, subdued rates of private inv...