Congress-ruled States are also part of the GST Council, points out Baghel
Chief Ministers of the Congress-ruled Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have questioned the Union government’s decision to not include Finance Ministers from the Congress-ruled States in the Group of Ministers (GoM) formed to examine the issue of GST exemption to COVID-19 relief material.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma is the convenor of this eight-member committee. The other members are ministers from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala, Odisha, Telangana and U.P.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot wrote on Twitter, “The Union Government has set up a GoM following the GST Council Meeting of May 28th, 2021. A deliberate attempt has been made to keep the principal Opposition party, the Congress, that has three members in the GST Council out of the GoM.”
Amid the demand for the ouster of Lakshadweep Administrator, Home Minister Amit Shah assured a BJP delegation that all concerns of the locals will be addressed.
Minority Rule
Given the Republican ferocity in trying to destroy basic rights, the road back to democracy is not civic but political.
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A statue of pro-slavery South Carolina Sen. John C. Calhoun is lifted out of Charleston in June 2020.
As Republicans have increasingly become a permanent minority in America, they have resorted to ever cruder schemes to cling to power. This destruction of democracy has been intertwined with the effort to maintain white supremacy as nonwhites became a growing share of the population. The filibuster is both the emblem and the instrument of this minority rule, as well as the connection between slavery, Jim Crow, and todayâs strategically racist Republican Party.