Yashwant Sinha urges Modi to replace Jaitley over GST blunder

On Friday, Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to replace Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley as he created a blunder out with GST. He said that "no amount of tinkering with tax rates” will set things right.

“With full responsibility, I urge the PM to bring in a new FM (finance minister) and also constitute a committee, headed by Vijay Kelkar, to recommend fundamental changes in the GST,” Sinha, once a Union finance minister, said.

Last month too Sinha made similar comment against his own party leaders and called note ban an “unmitigated economic disaster” and the implementation of the GST a “badly conceived and poorly implemented” havoc.

After Sinha's comment Jaitley took a jab at him and said "n 80-year-old man looking for re-employment".

“I may be 80, but I have presented all my seven Budget speeches ‘standing up’ unlike Jaitley. All I am saying is that he did not apply his mind, blinded as he was with the obsession to achieve a revenue neutral rate to avoid any fall in tax collection,” Sinha said.