West Bengal Lok Sabha Election Phase 3: In the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections, four Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal - Jangipur, Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, and Murshidabad - will go into polls.
Several unions and workers’ collective have come together to demand the government to lower the GST levied on beedis. The All-India Beedi Industry Federation, Swadesh Jagran Manch and Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh as well as prominent parliamentarians demanded that the 28% GST levied on beedis be cut down so that the livelihoods of the 4.5 crore people involved, which includes a