BJP seeks rollback of land pooling policy, urges Kataria to intervene

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Chandigarh, Updated At : 02:04 AM Jul 05, 2025 IST

Punjab BJP leaders extracurricular the Raj Bhawan successful Chandigarh connected Friday. Photo: Pradeep Tewari

A BJP delegation connected Friday met Governor Gulab Chand Kataria, seeking his involution to guarantee the rollback of the authorities government’s onshore pooling policy.

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The delegation included authorities enactment president Sunil Jakhar and BJP nationalist wide caput Tarun Chugh. The argumentation was launched successful May to boost municipality development, with the authorities claiming that is would payment farmers and landowners who would get plots of higher worth successful speech for the onshore contributed by them.

The argumentation has been rolled retired for 27 municipality centres. Townships volition beryllium developed adjacent respective cities, including Ludhiana, wherever implicit 24,000 acres of agriculture onshore is expected to beryllium acquired for the purpose.

It envisaged “complete voluntary participation” by landowners. For each 1 acre contributed by farmers, they would get a residential crippled of 1,000 sq yards too a commercialized crippled of 200 sq yards. However, earlier too, Jakhar had equated the inaugural to a “Ponzi scheme” to loot farmers, who helium said were being enticed with a “false of promise” of four-time instrumentality connected their onshore to payment favoured existent property players.

On Friday, the BJP leaders submitted a memorandum to the Governor against the policy. Interacting with mediapersons, Jakhar termed the government’s determination a “daylight robbery” and alleged that it had been introduced “only to prehend onshore from farmers and administer it among the ruling party’s favourites”.

He said nether the 2013 Land Acquisition Act, the consent of 80 per cent of farmers of the affected country was mandatory and onshore could lone beryllium acquired for roads and nationalist information purposes. He said the BJP stood firmly with farmers and won’t let adjacent an inch of onshore to beryllium acquired without their consent.

Jakhar alleged that the authorities was yet to framework rules and regulations regarding the policy, making its implementation dubious.

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