New Delhi, Dec. 2 -- The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has urged the Union government to abolish land pooling laws across the country and bring uniformity in the Land Acquisition Law. The BKS, which represents farmer unions, was instrumental in pushing the Madhya Pradesh government to roll back the land pooling announcement for the construction of a "spiritual city" in Ujjain ahead of the 2028 Simhastha Kumbh - a Hindu pilgrimage held every 12 years in Ujjain. BKS leaders expressed concern over the flaws in the land acquisition law and said in the name of development, agricultural land is being acquired by governments, which is adversely affecting the interests of the affected villages and farmers. "At a two-day symposium that concluded on Sunday in Rajasthan, under the banner of the Indian Agro Economic Research Center, a think tank of the Kisan Sangh, it was stated that farmers' interests are being overlooked by the land acquisition," said a functionary aware of the details. Nudging the government to review the land acquisition laws, the Indian Agro Economic Research Center, in a statement said that the system of the 1894 British law continued for years, and even after the implementation of the new law in 2013, amendments made arbitrarily by state governments weakened it. The organisation claimed that even after governments took actual possession of land, farmers either got negligible or no compensation....