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Winter Session gets underway: Rajnath talks about Aamir, secularism; Sonia on BJP

9 years ago

The winter session of parliament got off to a predictably heated start with the government attacking Opposition on "misuse" of the word secularism but cozied up nicely with the Ooposition too for some swift backroom compromise on its pet agendas - the Goods and Services tax (GST) bill, for starters. The GST bill is the most ambitious tax reform in India, post independence. It seeks to bring indirect taxes under one umbrella and the resistance to it is equally political and economic although signs of a thaw indicate that the Bill may well become law in some diluted form, not original.

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