Traders in Surat today called off their two-week-long strike against the imposition of five per cent GST on textiles following the Centre's assurance to look into their demand for its roll back.
Thousands of textile merchants in Surat have shut their shops since the last two weeks protesting against the new tax structure.
The announcement to withdraw the protest was made today by the traders who met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Delhi yesterday.
"During the meeting, Jaitley assured us that the issue of the GST on cloth will be taken up in the next GST Council meeting to be held on August 5. Thus, we have decided to call off the strike till that date," said Manoj Agrawal, a textile trader.
"If no favourable decision comes in that GST council meeting, we will think of going on strike again to raise our demand for abolishing the five per cent GST," he said.
During their demonstration in the Surat textile market, one of the biggest in the country, earlier this month, the protesters were lathicharged by the police who claimed that they were pelted with stones.
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