by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not literally correct when he told the TIME magazine in a recent interview that the Indian Constitution is his “only holy book”. The trouble with holy books is that once written they cannot be changed, and, if changed, a new religion is born. But Constitutions are liable to change. Modi is now struggling to amend the Constitution for legislating Goods and Services Tax (GST). It will not only make taxes by and large uniform across the states and UTs but should give the first stamp of confirmation on US President Barack Obama’s description of Modi, in TIME’s earlier issue listing the world’s most powerful men, as India’s “reformer-in-chief”.
