No One Muzzled Bengal Minister's Voice At GST Council Meet: BJP's Anurag Thakur

Anurag Thakur in a series of tweets said that he has never seen Nirmala Sitharaman cut off anyone during the GST Council meeting.

Minister of State (MoS) in the Finance Ministry Anurag Thakur has dismissed the remarks of West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra, who claimed that he was not allowed to speak at the end of the GST Council meeting held in Delhi on Saturday. There is a letter circulating in some sections of the media by Sh @DrAmitMitra Ji, FM West Bengal.I would like to set the record straight; the facts are as follows:1/6 https://t.co/6HGZMl5W0R Referring to Amit Mitra's letter to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in this regard, Anurag Thakur in a series of tweets on Saturday said that in his experience as MoS in the last two years, he had not seen Ms Sitharaman cut off anyone during the GST Council meeting. "She has patiently given each and every speaker as much time as they needed, even if it meant that discussions went on for long hours," he said.