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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
