Neeraj BaliChandigarh, Oct. 22 -- Punjab's six-day special Assembly session got off to a brief but politically charged start on Thursday, with the House adjourning after just nine minutes and six seconds following obituary references to slain anti-drug activist Parminder Singh Jhota and others, even as opposition parties stepped up pressure on Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann over the state's drug crisis.
The proceedings were adjourned until Friday after legislators paid tribute to Jhota, who was shot dead in Mansa on October 13, and eight MGNREGA workers killed in a road accident in Sangrur district.
The House observed a two-minute silence in memory of the deceased.
Outside the Assembly, BJP leaders joined family members of Lovepreet in a p...