new delhi the gst councils decision to remove a majority of items from the highest tax bracket handed congress a reason to intensify its campaign that modi governments policy was flawed because it had refused to listen to the oppositionanticipating the changes that were announced on friday evening former finance minister p chidambaram predicted thanks to gujarat elections government forced to heed advice of opposition and experts on flaws in implementation of gst congress fms will force changes in gst council meeting todaythere was however no comment from congress vicepresident rahul gandhi after the decisions were announced and his tweet from earlier in the day maintained gst is a gabbar singh tax we will not allow bjp to impose a gabbar singh tax on india they cannot break the back of the small and medium businesses crush the informal sector and destroy millions of jobs the tweet said the comment could be seen as a bid to mount pressure but there was no subsequent claim of vindicationthe opposition party has invested considerable energy on crafting its campaign in the current assembly elections in himachal and gujarat around flaws in implementation of gst and demonetisation rahul gandhi has made pollbound gujarat the test ground for his attack on gst convinced by inhouse strategists that states entrepreneurs were hurting under the new tax it was not for nothing that rahul went to the point of mocking gst as gabbar singh taxpostrelief congress is set to claim that bjp had buckled under its pressure and that of polls and that voters should push the centre more with a negative vote instead of taking gst off the radar the concessions may further harden the tax regime as a poll plank