CHANDIGARH: “I am certain that the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab will acquire the land of Punjab’s farmers through some other means or processes, because they have only withdrawn the land pooling policy announced on May 14, 2025 — not their intention to acquire farmers’ land, ” said Ashwani Sharma, working State President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, while speaking to the media today after inducting new members into the party.
Sharma said that the Punjab AAP government did not withdraw the land pooling policy in the interest of farmers, but out of fear of the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s stay order. “The very points we were raising have been upheld by the High Court, which imposed a stay on the land pooling policy, ” he said.
“The way a government officer’s order withdrew the land pooling policy — a policy that the Chief Minister and his ministers had announced after a cabinet meeting — clearly shows that in the coming days the government will again acquire Punjab farmers’ land. If this is not true, then Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann should publicly declare that under no circumstances will the government re-acquire the thousands of acres of land that they were attempting to seize through land pooling.”