GST on petroleum: Jaitley throws the ball to Congress-ruled states

Jaitley had said that the Centre wanted to bring petroleum under the ambit of GST and was awaiting responses from states

Finance minister Arun Jaitley asked the Congress party to tell the five states ruled by it to agree to impose the goods and services tax (GST) on petroleum, instead of asking what the Centre was doing on this . “You tell the five states to give a statement that they are ready to do so,” he told the Congress benches while giving a reply in the Lok Sabha to the second supplementary demand for grants. Involving net cash outgo of Rs 33,380 crore, it was later passed by the House. 

He reminded the opposition party that the constitution amendment Bill drafted