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Punjab: Badal demands scrapping of decision to acquire 24,311 acres of land, calls AAP 'anti-farmer'

Ludhiana, May 17 (UNI) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today demanded the immediate review and scrapping of the decision to acquire 24,311 acres of land across 32 villages in Ludhiana in the name of developing new Urban Estates (UE), stating that the move was anti-farmer and was aimed solely at filling the coffers of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
He said “it is shocking that the AAP government has passed a proposal to acquire 24,311 acres of land in the vicinity of the city to develop UE, a scheme which has failed earlier in many other parts of the State. It is even more condemnable that this decision has been taken without consulting or taking the consent of farmers whose lands will be snatched from them. Thousands of farmers will be rendered landless and this will affect their way of life irreversibly.”
Badal said “there is more than meets the eye. The AAP government is desperate to collect money to fund its publicity schemes. Earlier also the government had taken a decision to acquire land near Mohali with the same purpose. Now the farmers of Ludhiana are being sacrificed to fulfill Chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s desire to fill the coffers of Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia so that he can continue in his chair.”
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