Srinagar, June 30: Kashmir’s prominent trade bodies and civil society members in a confrence had threatened to launch a civil disobedience movement if the state government goes ahead with implementing the new tax law.
Sources said that former High Court judge had said the application of GST to J&K would be the biggest-ever assault on the state’s autonomy in the past four decades. The state would lose its law-making powers on taxation matters after GST. It would also affect the small industries which get tax exemptions and other incentives.
Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami, MLA said the GST regime is an attack on the basic fundamentals of the Constitution of India which provide autonomy to states.
MLA, Er Abdur Rashid said the state government is surrendering” its powers by implementing the GST & added by such like observations by others, who werepresent in the confrence.
A resolution passed at the conference said that the GST in its present form is completely unacceptable.
Sources said that all the participants were of the view that in case J&K government is insistent on implementing the central Act, a civil disobedience movement will be launched, the responsibility of the consequences would fall on the government.
Srinagar Bodies Threatens Civil Disobedience Movement On GST
