Share your story and shine at JK Monitor!🌟 Welcome to JK Monitor, where every story matters and every achievement is celebrated! We invite you to share the remarkable journey of your life and showcase your accomplishments to the world. Join our exclusive interviews that honor exceptional individuals just like you. JAMMU: Priya Sethi, Vice-President, J&K BJP & Former Minister, alongwith Sunil Bhardwaj, MLA Ramnagar, and accompanied by Dr. Pardeep Mahotra, Media Incharge, J&K BJP shared benefits of the landmark Next-Generation GST Reforms which will result in the Improved productivity and efficacy, in a press conference held at the party headquarters, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu.
While addressing the media persons, BJP leaders stressed that these reforms represent empowerment, not extraction, and contrast sharply with the UPA’s regressive tax policies that burdened the poor and crushed middle-class aspirations.
Priya Sethi, in her address, described the reforms as a historic milestone and the beginning of a new economic dawn for Bharat. She said that the Modi Government has slashed GST rates across the board, with cuts on 99% of goods in the 12% bracket and 90% of goods in the 28% bracket, which will boost domestic consumption by nearly ₹2 lakh crore, equivalent to four times the allocations under PMAY and ten times that under the PLI Scheme. This is a direct victory for every Indian, she said, adding that this year, prosperity is assured to everybody.
Priya Sethi stressed that these reforms are fundamentally about reducing the tax burden on every citizen, giving more purchasing power to the common man, farmers, small business owners, workers, and especially homemakers who manage family budgets. She also highlighted that the GST structure has now been simplified to just two slabs, making life easier for households and businesses. Comparing the approach to the UPA era, she said that unlike the credit-driven response of the 2008 crisis that created NPAs and inflation, Prime Minister Modi has expanded the taxpayer base, reduced rates, and yet exempted incomes below ₹12 lakh from income tax. Corporate tax cuts in 2019, among the steepest globally, have strengthened industry, jobs, and the middle class, she added.
Sunil Bhardwaj, in his remarks, underlined that the reforms are the result of a decade of hard work and economic repair. He said that this reform is a monumental Diwali bonus for Bharat, pointing out that essentials now fall in the 0–5% bracket, common goods at 5%, while luxury and sin goods are taxed higher to protect the poor and middle class. He said the taxpayer base has more than doubled from 65 lakh in 2017 to 1.51 crore today, enabling massive national investments in infrastructure, defence, welfare, and entrepreneurship.
He emphasized that these reforms are also a victory of cooperative federalism, with unanimous consensus in the GST Council across all states. He said that over the past decade, India has grown its highways by 60%, doubled airports, quadrupled metro lines, built 144 Vande Bharat trains, boosted local defence manufacturing by 174%, expanded exports 34-fold, and ensured ₹6.83 lakh crore reaches citizens annually through DBT without corruption. He further highlighted that 25 crore people have been lifted from poverty, 80 crore provided free rations, 3.8 crore homes built, and 1.5 lakh startups nurtured, all reflecting Modi Government’s vision.
