Finance minister Arun Jaitley meets Rahul Gandhi ahead of winter Session

New Delhi: With the Winter Session of Parliament due to begin late next week, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday met Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, setting off a wave of speculation in Delhi’s political circles.

Though Mr Jaitley is reportedly meeting senior political leaders to invite them for the wedding of his daughter next month, there was a buzz that he is also trying hard to enlist the Opposition parties’ support to get the GST Bill passed by Parliament.

There was no word from the Congress on what was discussed at the meeting between Mr Jaitley and Mr Gandhi. The finance minister has of late repeatedly been saying that he would reach out to the Congress and Mr Gandhi to seek his help to clear the GST Bill.

This has been billed as the most ambitious reform measure of the NDA government at the Centre. While Trinamool, JD(U), BJD and Samajwadi Party have openly supported the GST Bill, the Congress has stuck to the position that the Bill in its current form is not acceptable to the party.

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