Expressing her deep anguish, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking the Centre to pay the GST dues to the state governments.

"I am deeply anguished by the GST imbroglio which tantamounts to a betrayal of trust and moral responsibility of the Government of India towards the states, violating the very premise of federalism... This is a travesty and an abrogation of the fundamental basis on which the states gave up 70 per cent of their taxing powers, including the entire VAT regime, to usher in the GST regime," Banerjee wrote in the letter to Modi.