Centre usurping States’ rights: KCR

‘State is among four biggest contributors to GDP’

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has said the Centre is attempting to usurp the powers of the States and asserted that he would fight with the Centre to safeguard the rights of the State.

The Central Government which took away taxes collected by the State in the name of the Goods and Services Tax tried to include petrol and diesel prices under the GST regime. “The Centre however relented as the Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled States opposed the moves during the recent GST Council meeting held in Lucknow,” he said.

He reiterated that the State was among the top four contributors to the GDP and the RBI itself had confirmed this. “More funds were going from the State to the Centre. What we get from the Centre is very less,” he said. He was replying to a debate on Palle and Pattana Pragati programmes that came up as short discussion in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday.