The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has described the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which will be launched at a mega midnight Parliament event, as a great idea but slammed the Narendra Modi government over the way it is being implemented.
Speaking at India Today Midnight Conclave - Tryst with Tax - Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said that GST may end up in a huge mess if issues concerning it are not resolved in time.
Sisodia also disapproved of the government's decision to celebrate the GST launch at a midnight event in Parliament.
He said, "When people will start paying taxes happily and there will be a shrink in the grey market, only then it will an occasion to celebrate, not now."
In an exclusive interview with India Today, legal expert Harish Salve discussed the constitutional crisis in West Bengal following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's refusal to resign despite losing her seat and the decisive mandate against her party.
An India Today ground report from Tehran details the ongoing conflict, its impact on the city's infrastructure and how Iranians have gathered at Enghelab Square to demonstrate solidarity and unity amid war.
The Congress state unit in Tamil Nadu held an online meeting and decided to extend support to TVK. Congress is seeking a power-sharing agreement and is likely to demand two cabinet portfolios, along with a few board and corporation chairman posts, and other government roles such as trust members and directors.
Watch as India Today's Geeta Mohan brings this exclusive ground report from Iran's fourteenth-century Golestan Palace, which was damaged during the US-Israel airstrikes on Tehran.
