Chandigarh, April 28 -- By staying away from the one-day special session of Haryana assembly - convened primarily by the BJP government with an intent to politically target the Opposition on the women's reservation issue- the Congress, the principal opposition group in the assembly on Monday ceded political ground to the ruling BJP on the issue.

The move to boycott the assembly session was piloted by the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader, Bhupinder Singh Hooda who accused the ruling BJP of "misusing the assembly" to further its false propaganda and decided to hold a parallel session outside the House with his party MLAs.

"This assembly session has no constitutional backing. We have cornered the BJP by not attending the House and h...