GST bill never mentioned in agenda : Congress leader Anand Sharma
"An amendment has to be tat of the ken up seriously. The business advisory committee allocates time for legislative work. In the last meeting of the business advisory committee no time was allocated. The government is aware of it," he told CNN-IBN.
"The purpose is political, just to create a propaganda to defame the opposition," he said.
The senior Congress leader insisted that the "real issue" in Parliament is that the . "PM breaks his silence and respond to our demands,fixing accountability for commission and omission".
His statement comes amid the BJP charge that the Congress-led opposition, which has been disrupting proceedings in Parliament for about three weeks demanding resignation of three high-profile ministers, is up to stall the progress of the country by blocking key bills, including that of GST which the government finds difficult to pass in the face of continuing pandemonium.
With only two days to go for the current session to end, the government's last-minute push for a major tax reform was aborted on Tuesday with the opposition Congress refusing to call off protests in Parliament to allow a discussion on the GST.
The GST Bill has already been cleared by the Lok Sabha, where the government has a huge majority.
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