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Why Consensus Center depends on compensation states
As the GST Council calls for a two -day meeting tomorrow, the fastest point of the dispute will not be the Prime Minister’s Diwali deadline for the “next generation” reforms, but the question of how the states will be compensated for the proposed comprehensive changes.
Improvements may be promised to simplify the tax structure and low rates on essential commodities and services, but state governments are afraid that they will have to struggle with lack of adequate revenue.
At the center of the case, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment to start a new GST regime by 2025. The proposed overhaul includes compressing the current four-level structure in two major slabs of 5 percent and 18 percent while maintaining exemption on essential food, medicines and education.
In addition, a high 40 percent rate is to be planted on sin and luxury goods, which covers items such as alcohol, tobacco and cigarettes. While the Center frames the move as a “Diwali gift” to reduce prices to consumers and MSMEs and simplify compliance, states have argued that the actual cost will be borne by them.
Many items are expected to shift up to 12 percent from slabs to 5 percent and 28 percent from slab to 18 percent, state governments will come for sharp contractions in tax receipts.
Opposition ruled states, including Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Punjab, Jharkhand, Telangana and Himachal Pradesh, have warned that the proposed rationalization can strip between Rs 85,000 crore and Rs 2 lakh crore annually from their treasures.
These estimates are for 15-20 percent erosion of their GST revenue base. Telangana alone suffers a loss of Rs 7,000 crore.
The compensation end of compensation cess in March 2026 has intensified the demands for an alternative mechanism. Using 2024–25 as the state base year, the minimum five-year-old compensation are pressurizing for guarantee, and the protection of at least 14 percent revenue increase per year that reflects the conditions in the first five years of GST.
Without such security, finance ministers have warned that important welfare schemes, infrastructure projects and development expenses will be compromised.
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Sonam Wangchuk accused the strategy of ‘Banana Republic’ as the authorities retrieved the Unive. land
Two days ago on 31 August, Ladakhi Climate activist and teacher Sonam Wangchuk posted a video on X, which confirmed that the local officials were targeting their Himalayan Institute of Alternative Teaching (HIL) by canceling the lease on the land allotted to the university seven years ago.
Describing the move as a sign of ‘Banana Republic’ rule, Wangchuk said that the Ladakh administration had notices that the government would show that the government would take back the land and demolish the premises built in five years. He questioned the time of this action, given that it did not happen in the last six years, but in October there was a coincidence with the upcoming Hill Council elections.
Wangchuk said, “Ladakh’s Hill Council promised the sixth schedule security measures in its last manifesto, but now they want to win the election without fulfilling that promise. I will not let this happen to the people of Ladakh,” Wangchuk said.
He alleged that from arrests to threats ranging from arrest to cancellation of land lease, and claimed that the authorities were now considering including the ED (Enforcement Directorate). Wangchuk welcomed an ED investigation, saying that it would highlight the work of eight years of the institute without salary and their personal financial contribution.
Wangchuk said that while Hial enjoys tax exemption, he himself pays income tax as a service for the nation. He also claimed that half a million rupees have been donated to the Ladakh UT government in its formation.
Climate activist attracted national attention with him Indefinite hunger strike In March 2024, when he began talks between leaders of Civil Society of Ladakh and Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) when he came to a dead end of constitutional security measures for Ladakh.
Putting the issue forward, he and hundreds of followers also marched a leg for Delhi, forcing MHA to resume Ladakh dialogue in December 2024, although they remain inconclusive.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday, while facing the move of activist Manoj Zerennge to call his five -day fast on the demand of Maratha quota, said the government got a solution in the interest of the Maratha community.
Speaking to reporters in Nagpur, Fadnavis said that his government always focuses on the welfare of the Maratha community.
Jarang, who started his hunger strike on August 29, closed the protest on Tuesday afternoon when the Maharashtra government accepted most of its demands, including giving certificates of eligible Maratha Kunbi caste, which would make them eligible for reservation benefits available to other backward classes (OBCs).
The 43-year-old activist accepted a glass of fruit juice introduced by senior BJP minister Radhakrishna Vicky Patil, who heads the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Maratha reservation at Azad Maidan in South Mumbai, who mark the end of their fast.
Gandhi’s voter Adhikar Yatra, who prepared Bihar to rally against the alleged electoral manipulations, has received traction in the midst of these revelations. On the last day of the yatra, on Monday, he warned that the imminent “hydrogen bomb” disclosure would highlight how the BJP allegedly collides with ECI to purify the opposition-dominated voters.
This line has gearted for elections in the form of beer, with opposition parties such as the President Janata Dal (RJD) resonating concerns over irregularities, including unintended entries for phantom voters and dead individuals.
Adding irony, Malavia, possibly there is a history of leveling the allegations of the architect of this latest Salvo, which were later debated or contested. For example, in August, he accused former Congress president Sonia Gandhi of voter fraud, claiming that his name appeared on the 1980 electoral role, before he receives Indian citizenship.
However, the document he shared was mentioned the ‘National Capital Region of Delhi’ (NCT), a word only in 1991 – a decade later – a decade later – was leading to wide claims that it was lattice or photoshopped. The Congress rejected it as a “good photoshop”, in which the Trinamool Congress accused Malavia of forgery.
In January, during the Delhi Assembly elections, Malavia and other BJP leaders accused the wife of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh of being present in dual voter lists, motivating Singh who rejected the charge as “lies” and claims of election fraud.
These incidents were rapidly counter, they were exposed as exaggerated or false with pole bodies and fact-checks, such as Malavia’s West Bengal faced an investigation like fraud claims, but lacked the decisive evidence. Critics argue that such a strategy depicts the BJP’s strategy to protect against opposition criticism, but often destroys public belief in the electoral process and makes the party itself less reliable.
The Khera dispute is widespread implications for India’s democracy. As Gandhi’s campaign has gained momentum, it immediately asks for ECI reforms, including transparent voter list audit and similar data access to all parties. With Bihar elections, it can bold the spat voter spirit, especially in a state stricken by the historical allegations of booth-capturing and list-keeping.
The ECI silence on these dual entries only demands bolters for accountability. Finally, what started as a BJP opposition has turned into a wound of self-ethos, strengthens a lot of vote. Chori ‘ The story demanded to destroy and expose the cracks in this system that could affect future elections.
With PTI input
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