Watch: GST on horse trade, sitharaman trolled for slip of the tongue

A video of Union Finance Min­is­ter Nir­mala Sithara­man mis­tak­en­ly refer­ring to GST as “horse trad­ing” rather than “horse rac­ing” has gone viral on social media.

The slip of the tongue hap­pened while Sithara­man was address­ing the press after Wednes­day’s GST Coun­cil meeting.

In the video clip, Nir­mala Sithara­man is heard say­ing, “The sec­ond GOM relat­ed to bet­ting, gam­bling, casi­nos, horse trad­ing (cor­rects him­self) horse racing…”

The truth gal­lops out?
GST on horse trade!
please con­tin­ue https://t.co/X87hsx1iB2

— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) June 29, 2022

The video soon attract­ed neti­zens, and the oppo­si­tion has also react­ed sharply.

“I knew Nir­mala Sithara­man ji had the abil­i­ty to think beyond the bal­lot box. Yes, Nir­mala ji, there should be GST on horse trade,” wrote the con­gress leader.

“The truth is gal­lop­ing out? GST on the horse trade! Please con­tin­ue,” Set­taram Yechury cap­tioned the video.

The oppo­si­tion accus­es the BJP of horse-trad­ing in states where it is not in power.

The blip comes as the BJP is set to return to pow­er in Maha­rash­tra fol­low­ing the col­lapse of Maha Vikas Aghadi’s gov­ern­ment fol­low­ing a rebel­lion by Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde.

The BJP sup­ports the Shiv Sena rebel camp.