{
  "id": 16742217,
  "title": "Punjab Assembly: Stopped from entering House, Congress MLAs allege; stage protest",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/punjab-assembly-stopped-from-entering-house-congress-mlas-allege",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-27T12:06:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/punjab/punjab-assembly-stopped-from-entering-house-congress-mlas-allege-stage-protest/article71631219.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On the final day of the Punjab Assembly session, Congress MLAs were prevented from entering the House by the ruling AAP government, leading to a stage protest. The Leader of Opposition and senior Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa alleged that the Congress MLAs had been stopped from entering the Assembly. The Congress members raised slogans against the AAP government outside the House, accusing them of gundagardi (hooliganism). Later, AAP MLA Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal sought action against the Congress MLAs for pushing him while entering the House. The atmosphere of unrest continued as the Congress MLAs burnt brooms, the AAP's poll symbol, and one of them tore a copy of the land pooling policy, accusing it of being anti-farmers.",
  "summary": "Later, AAP MLA Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal sought action against the Congress MLAs, accusing them of pushing him while entering the House. \"An atmosphere of 'gundagardi' (hooliganism) is prevailing outside the House,\" he alleged",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}