India, Feb. 26 -- The Punjab assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution against the Centre's draft National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing, describing it as an attempt to reintroduce the three farm laws repealed by the Union government in 2021.

Concluding the debate on the resolution on the last day of the two-day assembly session, Punjab agriculture and farmers welfare minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian reaffirmed Punjab's strong opposition to the draft.

Chief minister Bhagwant Mann said that the state government had already rejected the proposal outright through a written reply to the Union government, calling it detrimental to Punjab's interests.

Mann criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to announce the minimum s...