Because the land pooling policy is brought on July 4, it is passed in the cabinet, and then Bhagwant Mann himself starts counting its benefits. The parties that the people had rejected and brought the Aam Aadmi Party to power, the same rejected parties are very happy these days. They have started making noise again. I don’t understand how, where and according to which survey the government brought this scheme? Which panel of intellectuals was involved in this scheme? How was the blue print prepared? What are the benefits and disadvantages of this scheme? Why did the Punjab government decide to take the curses of lakhs of people? Understand these things outsiders and neither is the Punjab government telling the people in detail. I don’t understand that you are destroying half of Punjab and you say that this scheme is for the prosperity of farmers, then why are the benefits not told to the people during the assembly session? The Punjab government is preparing to wipe 116 villages from the map, tell me what progress is this? Farmers do not live alone in the villages of Punjab, people of other castes also live there. You are pouring water into everyone’s hearth.
On July 18, a meeting was called in Kisan Bhawan. In this meeting, the farmer leaders had invited all the politicians by giving letters, but no leader of the Aam Aadmi Party went to that meeting. Why did the Punjab government miss coming to Kisan Bhawan and telling the farmers the reason for prosperity? I had heard about it on barren lands, what kind of wisdom is there in establishing colonies on fertile lands too? How surprising is it that someone is telling the landowners that you benefit not from keeping the land but from giving it to the government. Only then will your development happen. In fact, the eye is on the land and not on development. This is not the first time that governments have been experimenting on the people. The pulse of Delhi was stopped by the farmers of Punjab in the year 2020-21 for this very reason because even then the clamor was for land, for our existence. Once, during the time of Indira Gandhi, it is said that plots were cut and houses were built for the Dalit community in panchayat lands, but that scheme was not successful because that community could not settle even two kilometers away from its birthplace. People are also raising the question, where did this policy not become at the instigation of the land mafia? People should understand that if agriculture is such a bad business, then why are the governments struggling to take away land from under your feet? Only one old drain is leaking, how many more old drains does the government want to build? Why is the Punjab government taking the curses of lakhs of people as its share?
Farmers’ organizations have stood firm in the rights of farmers. So the farmers are being made to understand by the organizations that the only successful struggles are those in which they are fought with their minds. Everything should be discussed with ease. So we will win this issue with tolerance. Farmer leader Rajewal even said that he does not consider the Aam Aadmi Party governmen
t as a government at all. Recently, the land pooling issue has gone to the High Court.
Today, the entire Punjab including the farmer organizations is joining the tractor march and opposing this policy of the government. ‘‘Cancel land pooling’’ boards are being put up in the villages under this. There is protest in every village. Surprisingly, the Punjab Police is even stopping people in some villages for not putting up these boards. The news is also coming that the farmers have also invited the Punjab government to hold a dialogue at the Shahenshah Palace on August 8 at 11 am. There was a time when the Jats were naive, but not now. These are the people of Punjab who have settled in a desolate place, they know how to rise up. So it is not an easy matter to rob their interests. The people of Punjab will not sit silently. They will answer the government for everything. Kejriwal once said that “Agarwal knows how to make money.” But the people of Punjab also know how to save Punjab.
