Minister points to budget speech on pending dues to counter BJP leader’s claims
Minister points to budget speech on pending dues to counter BJP leader’s claims
Tamil Nadu BJP President K. Annamalai on Monday courted controversy with state Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan over his comments that he was not in the business of responding to misinformed statements by “inept people” in public forums.
In a series of tweets, Mr. Annamalai alleged that Mr. Thiaga Rajan’s “love of traveling in big airplanes and his plain outlandish arrogance at all times surpass common common sense! That’s the expectation from a person holding public office”. It is said that he should stay away from abusive language, slander and abusive language when asked a question.
Mr. Annamalai said that in December 2021, the Finance Minister announced that ₹16,724 crore was pending GST compensation. “As per the budget, this year’s pending compensation is expected as grant-in-aid of ₹6,447 crore. This matches the RTI response received in January 2022. Why did the Finance Minister make a false claim in the pre-Budget presentation?
During the budget protest last week, Mr. Annamalai had claimed that Mr. Thiaga Rajan had said in the budget that the total pending GST compensation for Tamil Nadu was only ₹6,500 crore that was received, but Mr. Thiaga Rajan was lying the whole time. It was observed that `16,500 crore was pending.
In a tweet on Monday, Mr. Thiaga Rajan referred to the Union Finance Minister’s budget speech and pointed out that the pending GST compensation for all states stood at ₹53,000 crore for the current fiscal.
Further, referring to Mr. Annamalai’s claim in his budget speech that GST arrears had been received by the state, he pointed to the part – “… to receive pending GST compensation arrears from the Central Government in the coming year.” Will be done. “