To gather rival party support on the Goods and Services Tax, today the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee invited three top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders — LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley on lunch.

One of the leaders attended the lunch meeting expressed that approximately 95 per cent of the dialogue was on how to craft the level of GST more pleasant. While just 5 per cent of the time was exhausted on the matter of shortening the tax holiday presented to Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

The BJP was lured to utilize the GST matter as one of restraining the independence of states, but eventually there was concord that the issue was not a political one, according to the sources.

One of the leader further expressed that there are extensively two kinds of states, those which are prosperous, where the prototype of expenditure is high and others where there are large coffers of minerals but they are poverty-ridden and where expenditure is low.

GST shall aid the previous class of states churn out more money. But the other category, being affluent, shall have short-end point expenditure and might not be able to gather GST in fraction to its riches.