Ludhiana, May 18 -- Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday demand immediate review and scrapping of the decision to acquire 24,311 acres of land across 32 villages in Ludhiana for developing new urban estates, stating the move was anti-farmer and "aimed solely at filling the coffers of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)".

In a statement here, the SAD president mentioned, "It is shocking that the AAP government has passed a proposal to acquire 24,311 acres of land in the vicinity of the city to develop urban estates, a scheme which has failed earlier in many other parts of the state. It is even more condemnable that this decision has been taken without consulting or taking the consent of farmers whose land will be take...