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Punjab Assembly pays tributes to Kanwaljit Singh

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The session begins: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal arriving to attend the first day of the monsoon session of Punjab Vidhan Sabha in Chandigarh on Friday.

Chandigarh: Punjab Assembly on the commencement of its Budget session here on Friday afternoon paid tributes to Cooperation Minister Kanwaljit Singh and others who died since the last session of the House in March.

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal led the House in paying tributes to Kanwaljit Singh who died in a road accident near Kharar in Ropar district of Punjab in March this year.

The others to whom Badal paid tributes included three former MPs Umrao Singh, Surinder Singh Kairon and Mani Ram Godara and three former MLAs Sagar Ram Gupta, Sadhu Singh Rajeana and Vimla Dang.

The House also paid tributes to Sant Rama Nand, a close associate of Chief of Dera Sach Khand near Jalandhar who was killed following a shooting incident at Vienna in Austria. Obituary references were also made to the victims of incidents of racial violence against students and other Indians in Australia.

Badal urged the House to unanimously pass a resolution to request the Prime Minister to take up the issue of racial attacks on Indians in Australia with his counter-part to ensure that such attacks stop and Indians are safe. Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon, who was the last to pay tributes to the dead, said that he had received the resolution and the same would be placed before the House next week. The House also paid tributes to freedom fighters Tara Singh, Sohan Singh Sra, Bhagat Singh Bilga, Kishan Singh, Kartar Singh, Jora Singh, Lal Singh, Kharak Singh, Budh Singh, Bhag Singh and Muni Lal. Leader of Opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia and Charanjit Singh Channi (Independent) joined the Chief Minister in paying tributes. -- PTI

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