Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 8 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has welcomed the recent GST reforms and termed them a "much-fairer" system, saying that these reforms will provide relief to the common people and will be better for everyone.

Speaking to ANI on Sunday, Tharoor said the Congress party has been demanding changes in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate slabs for several years.

"We in the Congress party have been asking for this for many years. I think our leaders have been flagging the need to go from four rates to at least just two, or ideally one, one day, because this is actually unfair to people. When you had four rates, it was confusing, it was difficult. People were not happy about this. So now I think it's a much fairer sys...