{"id":327464,"date":"2020-10-12T05:16:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327464"},"modified":"2020-10-12T05:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:16:58","slug":"rahul-gandhi-slams-centre-over-gst-compensation-to-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-slams-centre-over-gst-compensation-to-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi slams Centre over GST compensation to states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-president-rahul-gandhi-promises-minimum-income-guarantee-for-poor-if-voted-to-power\/rahul-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-308590\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308590 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-628x420.jpg 628w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg 815w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed Centre for not paying GST compensation to states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul said the PM bought 2 planes for himself but has no money to pay the states. &#8220;Centre promises GST revenue for States, Economy shattered by PM &amp; Covid, PM gives 1.4 lakh Crs tax cuts to Corporates, buys 2 planes for himself for 8400 Crs, Centre has no money to pay States, FM tells States- Borrow. Why is your CM mortgaging your future for Modi?&#8221; Rahul said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-slams-centre-over-gst-compensation-to-states\/rahul-tweet-gs\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327465\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327465 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rahul-tweet-gs-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-tweet-gs-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-tweet-gs-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-tweet-gs-696x388.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-tweet-gs-754x420.jpg 754w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-tweet-gs.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Rahul comment comes ahead of the GST council meeting. The meeting will be led by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with state finance minister&#8217;s council to discuss the compensation for GST revenue losses to the states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Rahul has been continuously attacking the central government over the issues related to the economy and the situation in the country due to COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed Centre for not paying GST compensation to states. Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul said the PM bought 2 planes for himself but has no money to pay the states. &#8220;Centre promises GST revenue for States, Economy shattered by PM &amp; Covid, PM gives 1.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[394,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327467,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327464\/revisions\/327467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}