Senior party leader Anand Sharma said that there is no possibility of the Congress reconsidering its decision to boycott the special midnight meeting to launch GST. Sharma said that ‘this is not a minor issue that the government will request and just few hours before the event a major opposition party will amend its decision. Keeping in mind Parliament's decorum and country's tradition, we have decided not to participate in the celebration’.
There have been big achievements and also problems in the past but the government has never called a midnight Parliament session, he said. He further added that in 1971, India tasted victory when Bangladesh got independence and Pakistan's Army had surrendered that time. Indira Gandhi had not called a midnight Parliament session. Nuclear experiment happened, India made its mark in space, economic reforms took place, several major things happened. But when this was not done ever before why do it now.
Sharma said that PM Narendra Modi should give an explanation to the public on why the issue of H1B1 visas was not raised with US President Donald Trump during their recent meeting. He also expressed concern about the current security scenario -- recent ‘serious incidents’, which have come as ‘signals’ from neighbours including Pakistan and China. The government, he demanded, should take the ‘senior leadership of the opposition into confidence about the security scenario and how government plans to address this situation’.
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