2 Hoshiarpur villages ‘ban' AAP leaders' entry over land pooling policy
"Till the time the land pooling policy is withdrawn, no AAP leader would be allowed to enter the villages," read the hoardings placed on the main roads by Purheeran and Shergarh farmers, whose land on the outskirts of Hoshiarpur town is coming under the scheme.
Bearing pictures of AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, the hoardings give a call to chase them out to save the land.
Farmers of both villages formed the Lok Ujara Roku Sangharash Committee (Committee to Stop Uprooting of People) in the second week of June, soon after the state govt issued advertisements notifying the areas being brought under the scheme. They sent memorandums to the Punjab chief minister and the governor, arguing that their land was fertile and produced three crops a year.
They also pointed out that the govt had earlier acquired 410 acres of their land for the construction of the bypass, leaving them dependent on the remaining land.
BKU (Doaba) president Manjit Singh Rai, whose land in Purheeran is coming under the scheme, said that both villages would lose around 550 acres to the land pooling.
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CM Mann's old video goes viral
An old video of Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, recorded during the farm movement, is now circulating widely, used by critics to mock his current stance on the land pooling policy.
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In the clip, Mann advised farmers to use gram sabha (village council) resolutions to oppose the Narendra Modi govt's three farm laws, while asserting their unchallengeable legal weight, even in the Supreme Court. The video has become a viral sensation on Punjabi social media, reposted by pro-farm accounts, opposition parties, and scores of netizens urging farmers to follow Mann's past advice against the new land policy.
"We should come to the ground level," Mann could be heard saying in the video. "I appeal to people across Punjab that they should rise above party lines, call gram sabha meetings, and pass resolutions against the three farm laws and send these to us, and we would send them to the Prime Minister and others," Mann told the Punjab farmers.
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