Chandigarh, Feb. 15 -- Clarity begins at home! If you want to end superstitions and beliefs, forget the enactment of laws, rings and yagas! Just set your own mind in order.

The message was heard loud and clear without the chants of touch-wood in the Assembly on Thursday afternoon, as the Punjab MLAs in one voice did not agree to a resolution for enacting a law to check growing superstitions and beliefs in the state.

Besides setting their own mindset in order before asking others not to be superstitious, the legislators, cutting across the party lines, also stressed on improving the standards of education besides providing psychiatrists in state hospitals to stop such superstitious malpractices of blindly following the soothsayers, palmist...