The second day of a special session of the Punjab Assembly, convened to bring in a law by the State to nullify the Centre’s three farm sector laws, will be held on Tuesday. The state government will pass a resolution declaring the whole state as a mandi. On Monday, MLAs of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Congress on Monday arrived on tractors to register their protest against the Centre’s farm laws.

SAD and the AAP members on the first day also staged a protest outside the Assembly against the ruling Congress government, accusing it of siding with the Centre. AAP MLAs spent the night at the assembly as a mark of the protest.

Leader of Opposition and AAP senior leader Harpal Cheema said the special session was called to counter new farm laws but the members had “not been given copies of the bills”, PTI reported.

“Will we get copies of the bills after the session is over,” he asked during the session, as reported by PTI. 

Shiromani Akali Dal member Gurpratap Singh Wadala said it seems the state government “does not have clarity” over the issue.

Meanwhile, farmers in Punjab had even given an ultimatum to the Punjab government to convene a special session of the assembly. They have been demanding that the three laws passed by Parliament recently be repealed.

Farmers have expressed apprehension that the new laws will pave a way for the dismantling of the minimum support price system, leaving them at the “mercy” of big corporates.