Union minister meets textile traders, demands to be put before GST council

Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday met Surat textile traders, who have been agitating against the imposition of 5 per cent GST or Goods and Services Tax on the industry for over the past few weeks. As the Centre reached out to the protesters though Mandaviya, their meeting with BJP president Amit Shah, who was in the district on Friday, was called off. Mandaviya, MoS for Road Transport &am…