AAP Accuses Haryana Govt of Land Grab Under Land Pooling Policy

A major political row has erupted in Haryana over the state’s land pooling policy. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has accused the BJP government of running a scheme through the e-Bhoomi portal that, instead of benefiting farmers, is helping brokers and builders. According to AAP, the policy is pushing farmers towards loss and threatening their livelihood, identity, and future generations.

Farmers Pushed to Sell Below Market Value

The way the BJP government has conspired to purchase farmers’ land at rates even below the circle rate is proof that they care neither for the farmer, nor the field, nor Haryana’s agricultural culture. The government itself is rewarding brokers and pushing farmers toward ruin. This is no longer a government, but a factory for grabbing land. By excluding 90 percent of farmers who own less than 10 acres of land from this policy, they have been deliberately handed over to the brokers. The land is being taken, but neither is the compensation fair, nor is the process transparent. Farmers are being forced at only circle rates, while the market rate is three to four times higher. In the name of compensation, the government is serving lies and cheating the rightful owners of the land.

Allegations of Pre-Purchased Land by BJP Leaders

In the areas where the policy is being implemented through the e-Bhoomi portal, BJP ministers and senior leaders had already purchased hundreds of acres of land in advance. Is this just coincidence, or abuse of power? When farmers are forced to sell their land, the pockets of those very leaders will be filled who had already bought land before the policy was enforced. This is not merely a policy, but a model of turning the entire power structure into a crossroads for trading over the corpses of farmers.

Govt Accused of Ignoring Farmers’ Voices

Chief Minister Nayab Singh is in a hurry to turn the entire state into a corporate project. He neither cares about saving villages, nor has the time to hear farmers’ cries. If farmers are silent, it is out of helplessness, but this BJP-led loot will not last long. This is the same government that did not hesitate to let farmers die on Delhi’s roads through the three black farm laws, and now it has come to snatch away their rights over Haryana’s soil. Leaders like Minister Anil Vij, who once opposed the construction of IMTs on fertile land, are today sitting silently. Neither are they speaking, nor are they standing up. Has their conscience stopped speaking against this injustice?

Opposition Under Fire, AAP Raises Questions

The role of Congress is equally shameful here. Across the state, not a single voice of opposition is visible. For a year now, even the Leader of Opposition has not been appointed, meaning BJP has been given an open license to loot farmers, while Congress closes its eyes and watches the spectacle. Haryana’s farmers must now decide whom they will stand with with those conspiring to loot them, or with the forces raising their voice against it. The questions raised by Aam Aadmi Party’s National Media In-charge Anurag Dhanda are not just political questions, but questions of life and death for every field worker and farmer. The BJP government will have to answer since 2014, how much land has been taken from farmers? How much land has been sold to which corporates? How many BJP leaders purchased land in these areas before the scheme was implemented? They will have to answer, because this land is not just a piece of property, it is the soul of Haryana’s farmers. And no government, no Chief Minister, no power structure can hand over this soul to brokers.