chandigarh the congress and ruling bjp in haryana are engaged in a verbal duel over the latters remarks against traders and the implementation of the gst congress spokesperson and former haryana minister randeep singh surjewala took on chief minister manohar lal khattar for his remark of tax evaders about the entrepreneurs of the state on the other hand haryana finance minister captain abhimanyu defended khattar while accusing the congress of having failed to take any traderfriendly decision in the statewe wonder how the cm could term the traders as tax evaders and a dishonest lot either he should identify a particular person or a group or he should rectify the wrong if any in the system or else he should tender an unconditional apology for his remarks traders are the backbone of our economy and are honest said surjewalareacting to surjewalas statement the haryana finance minister said as the congress did not have any issues to raise it was indulging in petty politics by levelling baseless allegations during the congress regime the traders had to run from pillar to post to get their demands heard and their appeals fell on deaf ears however in its tenure of twoandahalf years the present government has taken several decisions in the interests of traders he said abhimanyu further said that they had made most of the government works and processes related to the traders online so that they might not have to visit the department offices again and again