GST Council meet today: Nirmala Sitharaman faces her first test as Finance Minister

Nirmala Sitharaman will face her first test as the Finance Minister when she chairs the 35th meeting of the powerful federal indirect tax body, the  GST Council, on Friday, where soft skills of the union minister is what helps in a consensus based decision making. Sitharaman's predecessor  Arun Jaitley had ensured all decisions of the Council so far were consensus-based without resorting…