The strike by jewellers, who are protesting against a budgetary proposal to levy 1% excise duty on non-silver jewellery, entered 29th day on Wednesday.
FM Arun Jaitley in Budget 2016-17 had proposed one per cent excise duty on jewellery without input credit, or 12.5 per cent with input tax credit, on jewellery, excluding silver other than studded with diamonds and some other precious stones – the proposal caused the industry to shut shop across the nation.
On Wednesday, social media took to twitter to register their protests by launching a new hashtag #BJPagainstJewellers.
Here are some of the tweets posted under this hashtag:
मोदी सरकार से परेशान ज्वेलर्स अब एक ही नारा लगा रहे हैं।
॥ "एक ही भूल, कमल का फूल" ॥#BJPagainstJewellers@ajaymaken pic.twitter.com/TWIDw9JH7d— RAJEEV RANJAN✋ (@rranjaninc) March 30, 2016
#BJPagainstStudents#BJPagainstJewellers#BJPagainstFarmers#BJPagainstPoor#BJPagainstCommonman
Motto of BJP led by Modi : I ME MYSELF..— KhushbuSundar ❤️❤️❤️ (@khushsundar) March 30, 2016
Iffidel Narendra Modi use to accuse MMS as maun PM. Now himself following a bigger Maun. #BJPagainstJewellers
— GS SODHI (@gs_sodhi) March 30, 2016
https://twitter.com/SalmanNizamii/status/715187140527661056
#BJPagainstJewellers
Jewellers Make in India, Mr Sloganeer
Farmers, Artisans, Workers, Miners : All Make in India pic.twitter.com/XaIzHgiUcK— Geet V (@geetv79) March 30, 2016
This Is How He Fooled People Before Elections.
Now Not Keeping His Own Promises. #BJPagainstJewellers pic.twitter.com/rdWoNlcRSC— Sarvesh Nayak (@SarveshNayakINC) March 30, 2016
Sanghis are devoid of any family jewels, hence #BJPAgainstJewellers
— Suryanarayan Ganesh (@gsurya) March 30, 2016
Trends like #BJPagainstJewellers show growing disillusionment with BJP. How long will fake Nationalism cover up for the promised #Vikas?
— . (@AtomicBlow) March 30, 2016
It's 29 days now! Plz brk ur silence MR Modi & Mr Jaitly listen t d suffering f crrs f workers! Thy r nt Antinational #BJPagainstJewellers
— SIMA (@seemaadhikari) March 30, 2016
Such is the arrogancy of this govt that they don't even care to meet the Jewellers protesting, they did same to FTII#BJPagainstJewellers
— Mahender Chaudhary (@Mahender_inc) March 30, 2016