Chandigarh, Aug. 4 -- A day after Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann announced that his government would reach out to people and farmers over the land pooling policy and the government would do whatever the farmers would say, leaders of farmer unions have sought immediate scrapping of the land pooling policy.

"The policy is anti-farmers so it must be withdrawn at the earliest," said Balbir Singh Rajewal who heads a faction of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), a constituent of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM). He added that farmers would be satisfied only if the policy is withdrawn, otherwise the protests would continue. "It seems the government has not conducted a proper survey to weigh the acceptance of the scheme," said Rajewal.

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