New Delhi, July 19 -- As the all-party meeting concluded on Sunday ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament on July 20, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said that the walkout staged by the opposition leaders should not be seen as a boycott, as it was symbolic in nature.

"It should not be viewed as a boycott of the entire day's proceedings, it was symbolic," he told reporters after the meeting, which saw a chaotic turn soon after commencing as opposition leaders walked out over the recent political shifts involving 20 Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs and Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), along with six UBT Sena MPs, shifting to the Shiv Sena.

The Union Minister also shared that matters involving the numerical str...