New Delhi: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) - the biggest tax reform since independence - is set to be debated for seven hours without a lunch break in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Here are the facts you need to know:
* Prime Minster Narendra Modi to meet council of ministers soon to brief them on GST.
* BJP to make GST passage a poll issue like it made demonetisation.
* Opposition may ask for more compensation for states losing out.
* Opposition to raise concern about how concerns of manufacturing states may not be addressed.
* Opposition to raise the issue of procedure that govt pushing GST in hurry.
* For Opposition, it is difficult to oppose GST, especially for Congress.
* For Opposition, the message, especially after poll debacle, is the government is on track.
* Message to corporates is the government means business.
* GST passage and rollout by July 1, will help this perception.
* PM has insisted that development and reform agenda should be on track.
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