Ministers tour markets in city to push NextGen GST

Several Union ministers, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and chief minister Rekha Gupta canvassed shopfronts and markets across Delhi on Monday, meeting traders and consumers to promote the rollout of the new generation of GST reforms and press for wider adoption of domestic products.

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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and other ministers visited prominent markets in Delhi on Monday after the implementation of the next-gen GST reforms.

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Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, flanked by East Delhi MP Harsh Malhotra, visited Laxmi Nagar market in east Delhi, where she met traders and consumers to discuss the GST rate cuts, her office said in a statement on X. "The shopkeeper shared that Next-Gen GST rate cuts on many stationery items have reduced prices, benefiting students and parents," the post added.

BJP president and Union health minister JP Nadda, joined by Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva and the party's media head Anil Baluni, toured the Amar Colony Suit Market in south Delhi.