Manmohan Singh will not attend the stage of Midnight GST launch

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Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan singh will not be at the high table in parliament's central hall when the mega reform Goods and Services Tax(GST) is launched at midnight on Friday. His party congress has said it will skip the event organised by the government.

Dr Singh and another former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda of the Janata Dal-secular have been invited by the government to share stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee at the GST launch. Mr Deve Gowda has confirmed he will attend.

The Congress joins Mamata Baneerjee's Trinmool Congress in boycotting thr event. Other opposition parties like the Left, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party and Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party have also decided to stay away, sources said.

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