Finance Minister will impose tax even on air if given one more chance to present budget: Congress
The Hindu
MALAPPURAM
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) vice president V.P. Sajeendran said here on Tuesday that Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal would slap tax even on the air that people breathe if he was given one more chance to present the budget.
Inaugurating a Collectorate march taken out by the Congress demanding withdrawal of cess on petrol and diesel, Mr. Sajeendran said the taxes imposed on people were the biggest ever that the State had witnessed.
The government, he said, was fleecing people without recovering the ₹70,000 crore that ought to have been collected in the last five years.
He alleged that Mr. Balagopal’s tax department had failed miserably by losing ₹25,000 crore without updating the GST return forms in the last five years.
District Congress Committee (DCC) president V.S. Joy, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Aryadan Shoukath, former District Congress Committee president E. Mohammed Kunhi, V.A. Kareem, P.T. Ajay Mohan, K.P. Abdul Majeed, V. Baburaj, Hydros Master, and Saseendran Mankada spoke.
YSRCP government vindictive and corrupt to the core, alleges Union Minister Piyush Goyal. NDA will form the government in State and Chandrababu Naidu will take over as Chief Minister on June 4, he says after meeting the TDP chief. Under the YSRCP rule, Andhra Pradesh has become a haven for sand, land and liquor mafia.