NEW DELHI: The BJP sneered at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi 's claim that the Centre withdrew its plan to tax EPF after he put pressure, saying he can take credit for GST too if he lets it pass in Parliament."Congress and Rahul Gandhi can take credit for all decisions. He can take credit for the passage of GST and other bills if he lets Parliament function and helps the government in the passage of the bills. These are not the bills of BJP but of the country," the BJP told ET Now.Gandhi on Tuesday claimed credit for the EPF tax rollback, saying his pressure made the government give in."My pressure worked... I had warned the government against suppressing salaried class," the Congress vice-president said soon after finance minister Arun Jaitley announced the decision. "I felt middle-class people were being hurt by the government, so I decided to put some pressure. Happy that they have got some relief," Rahul said, adding, "The attempt to tax the safety net of millions of hard working, middle-class people was morally wrong and shows this government's anti-people mindset."BJP snubbed Gandhi's claim, with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley telling TV channel ET Now that Congress did nothing to create a social safety net for people when it was in power.Jaitley appealed to the Opposition to give up "disruptive" politics in Parliament, but then engaged in an attack on Gandhi and the erstwhile UPA government for its controversial decisions on the Ishrat Jahan encounter case and foreign policy, especially with regard to Pakistan.Close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attack on Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha last week, Jaitley took on the Congress vice-president. However, unlike the PM, the finance minister mentioned the controversial issues — JNU, intolerance, inflation and foreign policy.In his 45-minute speech, Jaitley said: "This is the time when we don’t need obstructive democracy. Our approach will have to be to work together. This is the spirit with which this government needs to function."Participating in the debate in Rajya Sabha on the motion of thanks to the President’s address, Jaitley underlined that the NDA government has nothing against a "particular student", referring to JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, but asserted that free speech cannot be allowed to be used to advocate break-up of the country."I expect mainstream political parties like the Congress to be in the forefront of being against these people. Please don’t do anything that lends respectability to such people," he said.Jaitley rejected Gandhi’s charge earlier in the Lok Sabha that the government has "frittered away" the benefits of previous years on Pakistan, saying: "We are compelling Pakistan for first time to own up that attack in India is taking place from their land."