Chandigarh, Sept. 12 -- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Baljinder Singh Dhillon took charge as the Chairman of Punjab Agro Foodgrains Corporation Ltd on Friday.

AAP Punjab President and Cabinet Minister Aman Arora was also present on the occasion.

Earlier, amid floods across the state, farmers in Fazilka claimed crop losses as water from the Satluj River entered their fields in the villages in the Jalalabad area of Fazilka district of Punjab, and appealed to the government for immediate compensation and a waiver of their debts.

Speaking to ANI, farmers said that nearly 1,500 acres of paddy crop were destroyed in the villages of Dandi Kadam and Dhani Natha Singh in Jalalabad tehsil of Fazilka after water from the Satluj River entered the f...