India, March 21 -- Punjab Congress members staged a walkout from the Punjab assembly on Friday 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 with Haryana.

During the governor's address on the opening day of the budget session of the assembly, leader of opposition and Congress MLA Partap Singh Bajwa got up and sought to draw Gulab Chand Kataria's attention barely a few minutes after he started his address. As the governor did not pay attention and continued reading his speech, Bajwa and other Congress members entered the well of the House, raising slogans against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government.

They displayed placards ...