Oct 28, 2022
With inflation likely to remain elevated for a longer period and key state elections due in 2023, the Narendra Modi 2.0 government may choose not to restructure the Goods and Services Tax (GST) slabs before it demits office in May 2024, according to official sources. After state assemblies elections in Himachal Pradesh in November this year and Gujarat in December, as many as nine states will go to polls in 2023 including Karnataka, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana. Then the tempo for the 2024 general elections will pick up.