CHANDIGARH, July 31 -- Raising the contentious land pooling policy in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Punjab Congress president and Ludhiana MP Amarinder Singh Raja Warring urged the central government to intervene and protect Punjab's farmers from what he termed as a 'coercive and unjust' land acquisition drive by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government.

Warring, referring to the Land Acquisition Act passed during the UPA regime under former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, alleged that the Bhagwant Mann-led government was attempting to forcibly take over nearly 50,000 acres of farmland without landowners' consent and any meaningful 'compensation'.

Warring said that under the policy, farmers will receive only one-fourth of the land, with no fin...