The Congress won't attend the Goods and Services Tax (GST) launch celebrations which will be held tomorrow in the Parliament, party leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi said.
It was earlier reported that Congress President Sonia Gandhi would meet former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today to decide whether her party would take part
Manmohan Singh was invited as a special guest - which meant he would share the dais with President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi- and the Congress found itself in a catch-22 situation.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) and M Karunanidi's Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) have already boycotted the event.
MP TKS Elangovan, of the DMK, said his party "feels it is just another important legislation so why this show off."
The Nationalist Congress Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal have called meetings of their respective party leaders on Thursday, to finalise their strategies.
Source:India Today
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