DMK slams UPA government over service tax for rice

February 07, 2014 23:04

Slamming the Centre for bringing rice under the ambit of service tax and sparing wheat from it, DMK President M Karunanidhi today questioned the 'north-south' discrimination and asked if those in power at Delhi were not interested in the votes of rice-consuming citizens.

Those ruling at the Centre seemed to be unnerved by the fact that elections were due soon and were coming out with announcements which were not acceptable to people, he said.

"One among them is that they have levied service tax on rice, which is the staple food of south (Indians). While rice has been removed (from the list of) agricultural produce, the same has not been done for wheat and it has been given tax exemption. Why this north-south difference," he asked.

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