Rahul Gandhi mocks at Narendra Modi, calls GST 'Gabbar Singh Tax'

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday mounted a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi terming the Goods and Services Tax GST as Gabbar Singh Tax that has hit hard the country already nursing the wounds of demonetizationYe jo inka GST hai ye aam aadmi pe bojh hai Ye GST nahi ye Gabbar Singh Tax hai Gandhi asserted at a massive rally in Gujarats capital Gandhinagar where OBC leader Alpesh Thakore joined the CongressCongress Vice President Rahul Gandhi addresses a public meeting in Gandhinagar Gujarat Pic PTIGandhi who arrived here in the morning at attend a rally by Thakore under the banner of OBC Ekta Manch said Modi imposed demonetisation last year on a personal whim pushing lakhs of people into distressAnd if this was not enough he introduced the Goods and Services Tax GST in a tearing hurryThe GST was brought by the Congress but there was a ceiling of 18 per cent and did not have five slabs like the present We requested the government to go slow but they just would not listen Gandhi saidHe called the Modi government antipoor and said it was working against the interests of the common peopleThe entire Gujarat is today caught in restlessness There is not a single section of the society here that is not agitating against the government over one issue or the otherGandhi also asked Modi to break his silence on BJP President Amit Shahs son Jay whose business fortunes allegedly skyrocketed after the NDA came to powerWhat happened on November 8 Modiji came on television and said I dont like Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes So I have decided to spike them from that midnight And by doing that he attacked the whole country by one strokeFor the first two or three days days he too did not understand what has happened And in a concert in Mumbai he announced I have done thisBut after fivesix days he realised he made a mistake Then again he appeared on television and said if I dont end the menace of black money by December 30 then hang meGandhi asked farmers in the crowd if they buy seeds and fertilizers from their mobile phones and with cheques The crowd replied with a booming NoHe destroyed the entire economy He did not stop there but went ahead with the GSTGST was our thinking We brought it it was a thought of single tax of 18 per cent across the nation with less forms to be filledHe also took a dig at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for rejecting Congress recommendation of cutting tax slabsNow there is a GST with 28 per cent tax and three return forms Now GST has become a Gabbar Singh Tax he said punning on the name of the famous Bollywood villain in SholayGandhi also attacked Modis Make In India slogan saying Chinese goods had swept IndiaShould employment go to China or come to India Most products you use have the label Made in China Whether it is a shirt cameras or anything else When you click selfies or press a button for a picture a Chinese youth gets employmentIn Gujarat alone there are 30 lakh unemployed youth Every day 30000 people across the country enter the job market But only 450 people get jobsReferring to allegation by Patidar leader Narendra Patel that a bribe of Rs 1 crore was offered to him to join the BJP Gandhi said that priceless voices of Gujarat can neither be stifled nor boughtEven Hardik Jignesh Mewani Dalit leader cannot remain silent They too have a voice And this is no ordinary voice It cannot be suppressed or boughtWhether they give Rs 1 crore Rs 100 crore Rs 1000 crore or Indias total budget or the wealth of the world the voice of Gujarat cannot be bought or suppressed