Punjab Assembly paid tribute to eminent personalities, freedom fighters, journalists and political figures who passed away after the last session. During this, two minutes silence was observed in the memory of the deceased personalities as a mark of respect.
Tributes paid to these personalities
In the seventh session of the 16th Punjab Assembly, the House elected former Speaker of the Punjab Assembly Surjit Singh Minhas, former Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhillon, former Minister of State Surjit Singh Kohli,Former Lok Sabha member Kamal Choudhary, former Rajya Sabha member Gurcharan Kaur, former MLA Dhanwant Singh, freedom fighters Sardool Singh, Kashmir Singh, Gurdev Singh, Jagdish Prasad and eminent writer and poet Dr. Surjit Patar, Joginder Singh, founder of 'Spokesman' newspaper, ' Jaspal Singh Heran, editor of 'Pahredaar' newspaper, paid tribute to Nakodar MLA Inderjit Kaur Mann's mother Jasbir Kaur Lali and husband Sharanjit Singh Mann.