Overview

• The two-day special session opened in Chandigarh on July 10 and was adjourned after just eleven minutes following obituary references
• Lawmakers honored victims of the June 12 Ahmedabad plane crash, slain Abohar businessman Sanjay Verma, veteran leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, AAP MLA Kashmir Singh Sohal, scholar Rattan Singh Jaggi and three soldiers
• Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan commended the Punjab Police’s swift action in the Abohar murder case, while Opposition leader Partap Singh Bajwa questioned the investigation’s lack of clarity
• Cabinet minister Aman Arora and AAP MLA Amandeep Singh Musafir led calls for obituary references, resulting in a two-minute silence for the departed
• Substantive legislative business, including scrutiny of regional security and governance issues, is scheduled to resume when the session reconvenes