The Union-government held an all party-meeting a day before Parliament's budget session begins. The session comes amid nationwide-protests against the government's citizenship measures, including the amended citizenship-law, with opposition-parties putting-up a united front against the Modi dispensation. PM Modi, senior ministers, Anand Sharma and Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress and Sudip Bandyopadhyay of the TMC, besides representatives of other parties, attended the meeting.