Fear grips AAP workers over land pooling push
On Friday evening, representatives from six villages whose land is earmarked for the pooling scheme reiterated their refusal to surrender their land. Gathering at Kot Kalan, they issued a stern warning to AAP workers, stating that anyone attempting to advocate for the policy in their villages would be responsible for the unsavoury situation and consequences.
According to AAP insiders, the local-level office bearers in Jalandhar and other areas of the state find themselves in a catch-22 situation.
While the party high command has issued clear directives to engage with farmers and explain the policy, ground workers fear hostile receptions.
"There are sections within the party who are worried that if the party office bearers or workers face a hostile situation in a village, and as such incidents are invariably filmed, it can lead to embarrassment not only for the involved party members but can provide material for more negative propaganda on social media to the opposition parties, as well as several Punjabi activists and netizens who are zealously contributing to the counter-narrative against the policy," said an AAP insider.
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Kukkar Pind passes resolution against policy
According to the advertisement issued by the state govt on June 6, 1,000 acres of land from six villages - Kukkar Pind, Kot Khurd, Kot Kalan, Rehmanpur, Alipur, and Nangal Krar Khan – come under land pooling. Around 700 acres of these are from Kukkar Pind alone. A 'gram sabha' meeting of Kukkar Pind held on July 20 passed a resolution rejecting their village land being brought under land pooling.
The resolution argued that the scheme would have the worst impact on small farmers and farm labourers. The resolution stated that after thorough deliberations, the village panchayat and the residents decided to 'strongly oppose' the land pooling policy and that they would not allow the Punjab govt to implement it in their village.
They appealed to the state govt to review its decision and resolve the issue before things start taking an unsavoury turn. The village also decided to send the gram sabha resolution to the Punjab chief minister, revenue minister, and Jalandhar deputy commissioner.
BKU (Doaba) block president Sukhbir Singh, who is also from Kukkar Pind, said that other villages were also in the process of calling a gram sabha meeting.
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