NDA to boycott entire Budget Session

The decision was taken at NDA's Coordination Committee meeting.

The NDA on Wednesday decided to continue its boycott of both Houses of Parliament till the end of the Budget Session on May 13.

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The decision was taken at a meeting of the opposition alliance's Coordination Committee, chaired by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

While taking note of Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee's fresh appeal to Vajpyaee to reconsider the boycott, the leaders took exception to senior Congress leader Ambika Soni's remarks that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may consider another appeal to the Opposition to return to Parliament, if it admitted its "mistake" of boycott.

She had on Tuesday said, "Now, if they (BJP-led Opposition) desired to come back accepting their mistake of boycotting Parliament, which is costing public money, then it is possible that the Prime Minister may try once again (to request the NDA) after listening to them or getting such indication. I can not say anything in this regard."