Businessman made to apologise to Nirmala Sitharaman for GST comments: Opposition
At an event in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore, the entrepreneur had drawn the finance minister’s attention to inconsistencies in the Goods and Services Tax regime.
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Opposition leaders on Friday alleged that a prominent restaurateur from Tamil Nadu was forced to apologise to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman after he expressed grievances about the Goods and Services Tax at a public event in Coimbatore.
A row erupted after a video of Srinivasan, the managing director of the Annapoorna chain of restaurants in the state, apologising to Sitharaman was shared online by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Tamil Nadu unit on its social media account.
Srinivasan is also the president of the Tamil Nadu Hotel Owners’ Association.
“Please pardon me for my comments,” he is heard saying in the video. “I do not belong to any political party.”
Coimbatore South MLA Vanathi Srinivasan can also be seen in the video. Vanathi is a member of the BJP.
Vanathi told The News Minute that Srinivasan apologised “voluntarily”.
There was a meeting organised in Coimbatore with businesses and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
▪️The owner of Sree Annapoorna, a famous vegetarian restaurant chain in Coimbatore, Mr. Srinivasan explained the problems of different GST rates for different items to FM
▪️He… pic.twitter.com/FXCZTWUjcU— Supriya Shrinate (@SupriyaShrinate) September 13, 2024
On Wednesday, the businessman reportedly told the finance minister during a public meeting: “The problem is that GST is applied differently to each item. For example, there is no GST on bun. If...
