00:00The indexation clause in the finance bill and the budget was completely against the middle class.
00:06After our pressure, the middle class has got relief.
00:10After the pressure of the India Alliance, the central government has declared a rollback on it.
00:16And that is why I am grateful to the leaders of the various parties of the India Alliance and to the LOP, Mr. Rahul Gandhi.
00:23But we have one more demand, and that too in connection with the middle class.
00:27That the GST imposed on life insurance and health insurance is 18%.
00:32That is too much.
00:33This has been done completely unjustly with the middle class.
00:38And we tried to put pressure on this again and again.
00:41Our co-leader, the leader of the RSP party, R. K. Premachandran, also brought an amendment to this bill.
00:49But all the amendments were discussed in the Sadan.
00:53Voting was done on all the amendments according to the voice vote.
00:57But the 18% GST that was to be removed by Mr. Premachandran,
01:02the amendment that has been accepted, the President's address has been circulated,
01:08that is why there was no voting on it.
01:12There was no discussion about it either.
01:14And the government is showing a technical reason, which is completely baseless.
01:19When the amendments have been circulated on 18% GST,
01:23then voting should have been done on it.
01:25This was our right.
01:26Somewhere or the other, the government has this intention
01:29that they do not want the India Alliance,
01:32along with this index action,
01:35to get one more thing that we raised the issue of 18% GST.
01:40And that is why, where they accepted our demand on the index action,
01:45they are running away from our demand on 18% GST.
