Voicing concern: CPI State secretary R. Viswanthan says GST has come at a time when Puducherry is reeling under severe financial crunch. | Photo Credit: S_S_KUMAR more-in The Left parties and the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) on Monday charged the Centre with rolling out Goods and Services Tax (GST) in an autocratic manner hitting traders as well as consumers in the Union Territory. Addressing a joint press conference here, R. Viswanathan, State Secretary of CPI, and R. Rajangam, secretary of CPI(M), said a joint demonstration would be conducted on Tuesday by volunteers and functionaries of the CPI, the CPI(M) and the VCK to condemn the GST system. Mr. Viswanathan said that Puducherry had been reeling under critical financial position. Industrialists had not been able to start enterprises in the Union Territory and they were functioning were on the way out. As per statistics with the government, of the 18,000 traders, only 3,000 were doing business above ?1.5 crore per annum. But the Centre and the Puducherry government had been forcing the remaining traders to join the new regime. This was unethical, he said.

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