BJP red-faced as MLA walks out over ‘Forcible’ land acquisition in Jammu

The ruling BJP faced embarrassment in the Legislative Assembly today when party lawmaker Sukhnandan Choudhary created a ruckus over ‘forcible’ acquisition of farmers’ land for the proposed Ring Road project in the Jammu region. Choudhary trooped into the well of the House before staging a walkout over, what he alleged, the government’s inhuman attitude by snatching the livelihood of over 1,500 farmers of the Jammu plains. As Choudhary, a former minister and two-time MLA from the Marh constituency, was raising slogans against the forcible acquisition of land, NC lawmaker Devendra…

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