India, Sept. 5 -- The BJP on Thursday hailed the GST reforms as a historic measure which will benefit every section of society and hit back at the Congress over its claim that it had been pushing for taxrationalisation, saying nobody had stopped the party in its long tenure from rolling out the unified indirect tax regime.
With some Congress leaders noting that their leader Rahul Gandhi had long favoured the two-tier tax structure as announced by the GST Council, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said he is "staying in la la land" and that is not going to bring any dividend to his party.
"Who had stopped Rahul Gandhi and his party to bring the GST before 2014? it shows their own inefficiency," Patra told reporters, listing a range of...