INDIA bloc parties stage protest against GST on health, life insurance premiums
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New Delhi: In an effort to demand the removal of the 18% Goods and Services Tax (GST) from life and health insurance premiums, INDIA bloc parties organised a protest on Tuesday inside the premises of the Parliament.
There was a demonstration on the steps leading up to the Parliament's Makar Dwar, which was attended by MPs from a number of parties, including the TMC, Congress, AAP, and NCP (SC).
Carrying placards reading "Tax terrorism", the protesting MPs raised slogans demanding that the GST on life and health insurance premiums be rolled back.
Trinamool Congress MPs have raised the issue in Parliament and party president and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the matter.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari also wrote to Sitharaman and urged her to consider withdrawing the GST which, he said, amounted to taxing uncertainties of life and restricting the industry's growth.
With PTI inputs