Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday clarified that the petrol, diesel GST was on the agenda of the GST council only because of the Kerala high court order. “This item came on the agenda for today’s discussion purely because Kerala high court order as some person approached the high court and the court said that this can be taken up by the GST Council. On the direction of the court, it was brought up and the members spoke very clearly that they do not want this under GST,” finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, addressing the speculation of fuel prices going up if the proposal gets okayed by the Council.
