Chandigarh, March 21 -- The budget session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha starting Friday is likely to witness stormy scenes with the opposition parties preparing to corner the government over the police action against the farmer unions, arrest of their farmer leaders, brutal police assault on a serving army colonel, breakdown of law and order and a host of other crucial issues.

The opposition parties, particularly the Congress, went after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government on Thursday over the detention of farmer leaders and activists, who had been protesting at Shambhu and Khanauri, and dismantling of protest sites a day earlier, with Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress MPs staging a protest outside the Parliament...