rohtak congress leader randeep singh surjewala on saturday said the goods and service tax gst in its present form would be a body blow to farmers textile sector small and medium businesses it would also lead to runaway inflation impacting the common man he claimed addressing a traders sammelan organized in panipat on saturday as part of the partys vyapar bachao dukandar bachao campaign surjewala said upas gst was simple transparent and uncomplicated taxation on goods and services bjps gst is a complicated maze of multitier tax structure requiring 37 returns to be filed by every tax payer every yearhighlighting the gst provision surjewala questioned nda governments motive of taxing all aspects of roti kapda and makan in an excessive fashion citing an example surjewala asked prime minister narendra modi and finance minister arun jaitley what was the justification for taxation of daily use items like shampoos deodorants and wheelchairs for physicallychallenged he said the textile sector was the second biggest job generator after agriculture they are the hardest hit by distorted duty structure of gst which can wipe out millions of micro small and medium manufacturers traders cloth merchants and shopkeepers said the congress spokesperson he also questioned the rationale behind bringing fertilizers under the gst when the agriculture sector was reeling under a major crisis he said that 28 tax had been imposed on pesticides in an insensitive manner