New Delhi, March 20
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister P Chidambram here today seeking immediate convening of a session of the SGPC.

The SGPC budget is to be passed before March 31 and the session has to be convened in consultation with the Home Ministry. Badal said both the Prime Minister and Home Minister had promised to look into the matter. He also made it clear that his party was opposed to the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre. — TNS