States not in favour of petrol, diesel inclusion into GST: FM

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the states are not in favour of including petrol and diesel into GST at the moment, ruling out any immediate levy of the new indirect tax on these petroleum products . While GST was rolled out on July 1, real estate as well as crude oil, jet fuel or ATF, natural gas , diesel and petrol were kept out of its purview. This meant that the products continued to…