Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam urged Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan to withdraw from the GST campaign. The government has roped in Big B to promote the Goods and Services Tax (GST), ahead of the scheduled July 1 rollout of the sweeping tax reforms.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs will be making the 74-year-old actor brand ambassador for the GST.
A 40- second video featuring him has already been shot and is being circulated.
“The GST was a brilliant idea thought of by the Congress. It is another story that the BJP opposed it all the while it was in the opposition. But after coming to power, it started diluting the basic concepts of the GST, and that was not acceptable to us,” Mr Nirupam said
“It has become very complicated now. Traders and service providers are required to fill three long forms every month. Thus, the basic purpose of the GST is defeated. This is unlike the way the GST has been implemented in other countries,” he added.
“That is why I am suggesting Amitabh Bachchan should not be a party to every foolishness of the BJP. You (Amitabh Bachchan) are a known person and have a wonderful reputation which may get maligned if there is a backlash from traders,” said Sanjay Nirupam.
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