Centre must not encroach on State’s rights on taxes: Ajit Pawar
The Hindu
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Maharashtra Finance Minister Ajit Pawar on September 16 said that the Centre must not “encroach on the State’s rights” to collect taxes, and “any topic to put a curb on the State’s rights, if discussed, will be strongly opposed”.
“The Centre should do its work of invoking taxes as mandated by the law. But it should not encroach on the State’s rights,” Mr. Pawar said, a day prior to the to be held in Lucknow on September 17.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.