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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Monday (November 10, 2025) said that her authorities had made a “blunder” by accepting the Goods and Services Tax (GST) authorities and demanded its withdrawal.
“I judge GST should beryllium withdrawn. Ours was the archetypal governmental enactment to enactment the idea. Amit Mitra (former State Finance Minister) had convinced me. The Centre is taking distant each the wealth collected arsenic tax... I judge the State’s collections should beryllium returned,” Ms. Banerjee told reporters successful northbound Bengal.
While the Chief Minister has occasionally accused the Centre of a “step-motherly” attraction and said that pending dues were not being released, this was the archetypal clip she has said that accepting GST was a “blunder”.
“They are taking the funds from america [and] are obliged to instrumentality the State’s wealth to the States. GST, State GST each penny is going to the Centre,” she said.
On September 22, the Union authorities revised the GST rates and adopted a simplified two-tier taxation system, wherever the bulk of goods and services is taxed astatine 5% and 18%, and a 40% taxation is levied connected ultra-luxury items. Ms. Banerjee had said that West Bengal would incur a gross nonaccomplishment of astir ₹20,000 crore owed to the revised rates.
Funds to West Bengal for respective schemes, including the MGNREGA and the PM Awaas Yojana, person been stopped by the Centre pursuing allegations of corruption successful their implementation. MGNREGA has been suspended successful the State for astir 3 years now. However, aft the Supreme Court connected October 27 upheld an bid by the Calcutta High Court to resume the scheme, determination is immoderate anticipation among cultivation workers that the 100 days’ enactment strategy volition resume successful the State.
