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Sukhbir S Badal demands decision to acquire 24,311 acres of land around Ludhiana to develop Urban Estates be scrapped immediately
Punjab Times (English Edition)
|May 18, 2025
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today demand the immediate review and scrapping of the decision to acquire 24,311 acres of land across 32 villages in Ludhiana in the name of developing new Urban Estates, stating the move was anti-farmer and was aimed solely to filling the coffers of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
In a statement here, the SAD president said "it is shocking that the AAP government has passed a proposal to acquire 24,311 acres of land in the vicinity of the city to develop Urban Estates, a scheme which has failed earlier in many other parts of the State. It is even more condemnable that this decision has been taken without consulting or taking the consent of farmers whose lands will be snatched from them. Thousands of f
This story is from the May 18, 2025 edition of Punjab Times (English Edition).
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