GST roll-out: Chidambaram attacks govt, Sushil Modi blames UPA for delay

Former finance minister P Chidambaram took to Twitter and accused the BJP of stalling the implementation of GST when UPA was in power

Former finance minister P Chidambaram's tweets accusing the Bhartiya Janata Party of stalling the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) for five years when the UPA was in power have set off a war of words between the BJP and the Congress, at a time when the GST regime is about to mark its first anniversary on July 1.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi was the head of the empowered committee on the GST when Chidambaram was finance minister during the second stint of the UPA government. He recently told Business Standard that the states lost confidence in