India, Sept. 26 -- The Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Friday paid tributes to the 59 people who lost their lives in the recent floods, the worst the state has seen in four decades.

At the outset of the special session, the MLAs paid tributes to former minister Harmail Singh Tohra, ex-MLA Raghubir Singh, lieutenant colonel Bhanu Pratap Singh Mankotia, acting lance daffadar (ALD) Daljit Singh, lance naik Rinku Singh, lance naik Pritpal Singh, sepoy Harminder Singh, actor Jaswinder Singh Bhalla, music composer Charanjit Ahuja and Ram Prashad Sharma, the brother of BJP MLA Ashwani Sharma.

The special session of the Punjab assembly from September 26-29 has been convened to discuss the recent floods that caused unprecedented devastation in the state....