Chandigarh, March 22 -- Congress legislators staged a walkout from the Punjab assembly on Friday during the governor's address over the brutal police assault on a serving army colonel and his son in Patiala and the police action against farmers protesting at Shambhu and Khanauri borders.

On the opening day of the budget session of the assembly, the leader of opposition and Congress MLA Partap Singh Bajwa got up and tried to interrupt governor Gulab Chand Kataria's address to the House. Kataria paused for a moment but then continued reading his address even as other Congress members got up from their seats. Bajwa tried to draw the governor's attention to the two issues, but much of what he said was not audible.

Congress members, wearing ...