Parliament's Budget Session ends, GST tops the list of 18 bills passed

After initially playing hard ball, Cong supported passage of GST bill saying it was UPA's brainchild

The parliament's budget session 2017-18 ended on Wednesday marking a few firsts including passage of key reform GST bill, advancing union budget to February 1 instead of February 28, merging the railway budget into the main document, merging plan and non-plan allocations and nod to the finance bill by March 31.

The first half the budget session from January 31 to February 9 started with President Pranab Mukherjee's address to parliament and saw a united Opposition taking on the government over the controversial demonetisation decision but by the second half from March 9 to April 12 the Opposition's morale was impacted