‘Forcible’ Dispossession of land: Anandpur Sahib MP slams Punjab government's action

Chandigarh, July 31

Congress national spokesperson and Shri Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari today announced that if need be he will fight the cases of all those people, whose land was being forcibly taken away by the AAP government in Punjab, right up to the Supreme Court.

Interacting with residents of several villages falling in the Kharar Assembly segment near here today, Tewari criticised the AAP government in Punjab for indiscriminately trying to dispossess poor people of their small landholdings in the name of clearing the “encroachments” even when they had genuine ownership claims over that land.

The INC national spokesperson said nobody had any problem with the government taking back the genuine panchayat land from those who had actually encroached upon it. “But we will not let this government dispossess those who have legal and lawful ownership rights over the land they are in possession for several decades,” he said.