GST ball in Centre’s court

Bihar finance minister Sushil Modi no longer being available as the head of the empowered group of state finance ministers that was, to a large extent, driving the move towards goods and services tax (GST) is undoubtedly a setback to the process. Apart from the fact that Modi was acceptable to the group of state finance ministers, he was remarkably positive about problem-solving—he was happy to leave sweating of details to officials as long as the politicians agreed on broad principles—and the biggest positive was that he was a BJP finance minister.

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