What RSS wants vs what BJP does: Modi, Bhagwat at loggerheads over GST, economy
A ceasefire between the BJP and RSS over GST does little to disguise the brewing tussle between the two on economic issues.
On October 6, a wave of relief swept through both the BJP and the Sangh parivar when the finance ministry announced a series of concessions to the small scale sector. The government raised the relief bar in the composition scheme for small scale units from Rs 75 lakh to Rs 1 crore, and rolled out a series of other concessions including lowering the GST rate applicable on 27 items concerning small manufacturers and traders. It was one of the biggest rollbacks of specific GST provisions which had directly affected the MSME sector, an issue which RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had publicly alluded to in his Vijayadashami speech on September 30 in Nagpur. The RSS chief had backed the government, but expressed concern on two fronts the
