Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on savings through Goods and Service Tax slab restructuring, and said families would have saved many lakh crores of rupees more had the reforms been initiated eight years ago.

The Prime Minister has said Indians will save Rs 2.5 lakh crore through GST reform and Income Tax relief. "But this is exactly what the Opposition has been demanding from the very beginning. If these measures had been taken eight years ago, families across the country would already have saved many lakh crores more," Stalin said.

Moreover, he said that it was his duty to point out that 50 per cent of this relief has been actually borne by the state governments, a fact which the Centre has failed to acknowledge as w

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