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Punjab Congress stages massive protest against land pooling
It is land looting, not land pooling, says Warring
Babushahi Bureau
Ludhiana (Punjab), July 14, 2025: Thousands of Congress workers today staged a massive dharna against the Punjab government'st proposal to acquire 50,000 acres of land from different villages in Ludhiana outskirts without the consent of farmers and without any compensation to them.
Led by the PCC president and Ludhiana MP Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, the Congress workers who were joined by senior leaders from across the state, staged a dharna in front of the office of the Chief Administrator of the Greater Ludhiana Development Authority (GLADA) demanding revocation of the notification for land acquisition.
They also submitted a memorandum, addressed to the Chief Minister, through the GLADA Administrator.
Addressing the dharna, the PCC president said that this was an authoritarian, autocratic and dictatorial decision of the Aam Aadmi Party government, which will never be allowed to be implemented at any cost.
“This is not land pooling, but the land looting policy of the AAP leaders”, he remarked.
He noted that this is quite unprecedented and unheard of that the government has neither taken the consent of those from whom it is acquiring the land and nor is offering any compensation. “Against every acre the government will return you 1000 square yards”, he said, while pointing out, “this means they will take away Rs 100 from you and return you Rs 25 only”.
Warring reminded the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann that he himself being the son of a farmer should have more empathy for the farmers than his other colleagues from Delhi who are pursuing the idea of “land-looting”.
“But let me make it clear to you that the Punjab farmers will not let you take away even a single inch of their land and you think of taking away 50,000 acres”, he warned the AAP government while reminding it how the farmers forced the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw three controversial farm laws, with an apology. “The same way”, he added, the Punjab government will have to withdraw the policy with due apologies.
The PCC president assured that the Congress will stand by the farmers as it always has.He pointed out, Dr Manmohan Singh led UPA government had enacted a law on land acquisition protecting the interests of the farmers.
Prominent among those present at the dharna included Secretary AICC Ravinder Dalvi, Rana KP Singh, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Balbir Sidhu, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Sukhpal Singh Khaira, Dr Amar Singh, Capt Sandeep Sandhu, Jassi Khangura, Ramanjit Singh Sikki, Sukhpal Singh Bhullar, Gurkirat Singh Kotli, Mohit Mohindra, Gursharan Kaur Randhawa, Rakesh Pandey, Surinder Dawer, Sanjay Talwar and others.