DW BUREAU / CHANDIGARH The Aam Aadmi (AAP) unit of Punjab has stressed the need for convening a special session of Punjab Assembly on the issue of three ordinances passed by the Union Government recently which, it claimed, would hit the agriculture sector hard, leaving teeming millions of farmers and labourers and others in the state to rue and rant for life. A delegation of the party, led by Leader of Opposition (LoP) Harpal Singh Cheema, met Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana KP Singh, in Chandigarh on Tuesday, to hand over a memorandum to him over the much talked-about ordinances, which, the delegation alleged, were anti-farmer and anti-state. The three ordinances, introduced by the Union Government, were nothing but a political gimmickry on the part of the union government in the name of agricultural reforms, the memorandum said. The delegation said the ordinances had come as a boon for the patronised few corporate houses, while it was indeed a curse for the farming fraternity across the country. Elaborating on the issue, the delegation informed the Speaker that the said amendment to Essential Commodities Act, and other ordinances, including the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020, had been pushed across to legalising contract farming in the state, saying these deadly ordinances would prove detrimental to the survival of the farmers and other associated with the sector, in many ways than one. He demanded, through the memorandum, the government in the saddle should convene a special Assembly session.  (editor@dailyworld.in)