Ludhiana, June 8 -- Shiromani Akali Dal's (SAD) Ludhiana West bypoll candidate Parupkar Singh Ghumman on Saturday accused the state government of making farmers "landless" by acquiring their fertile land besides "failing" to clean up the Buddha Nullah and "refusing" to regularise contractual employees of the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).

"Farmers are set to be evicted from 24,000 acres of land but the chief minister is not concerned. Lies are being pouted that the land acquisition will be voluntary even when the notification clearly states that all land will be acquired irrespective of the concern of farmers. It is condemnable that Bhagwant Mann has not addressed the issues of farmers even today," he said.

Speaking about the Bud...