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When Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was introducing the GST Bill yesterday, he was rebuked by Congress parliamentarians who shouted “nahi chalegi”, meaning “this won’t do” in Hindi.

Later, soon after the bill was moved, the Congress started its protest, demanding the resignation of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

The Congress, supported by some opposition parties, has been demanding the resignation of Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje on their alleged help to Lalit Modi and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the Vyapam scam. The Congress Vice...

He didn’t forget to mention the stalemate that continues in the parliament and appealed to all the parties for supporting the GST bill so that it can be passed in order to subsume taxes and rationalize the tax system.

He said that the demand for the resignations of the then UPA ministers had been made by the BJP on the basis of investigations and the Comptroller and Auditor General’s reports.

The Congress MPs carried placards and wore black bands in protest.

Significantly, the Congress is in direct opposition to the BJP in both these states where there is no third party, and the two face each other directly in elections.

The standoff in Parliament between the government and the opposition took a new turn Monday when Speaker Sumitra Mahajan named and suspended 25 Congress members from Lok Sabha for five days for “persistently, wilfully obstructing” proceedings in the House.