It is certain that 17 Opposition parties decided to boycott GST midnight launch . Congress was apparently irked with Modi trying to emulate India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's midnight "tryst with destiny" speech on the eve of Independence.

The Left leaders are also not inclined to attend the special GST meeting and are set to skip it, along with other opposition parties DMK JD,

Government has invited former Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and H D Deve Gowda but the boycott decision been made after consultation with Manmohansingh only.

Reason for opposition boycott due to " GST is being implemented in a haste and all aspects have not been taken into consideration leading to harassment of small traders and businessmen " Quotes opposition bench Sources...

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