Aam Aadmi Party’s State Chief Spokesperson, MLA and former Cabinet Minister Punjab, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, along with senior woman leader Advocate Amandeep Kaur Dhaliwal, Block In-charges Jasjit Singh, Sandeep Singh, Harpal Singh and Baljit Singh, organized large public meetings under the campaign “Four Glorious Years with Bhagwant Mann” in villages and towns located along the India-Pakistan international border in the Ajnala constituency, including Dinewali, Ball Labhe Dariya, Chak Bala, Nangal Amb, and town Ramdas (Wards No. 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10), and listened to the concerns of border residents.
Addressing the gatherings, Dhaliwal said that under the leadership of Punjab Chief Minister S. Bhagwant Singh Mann, the government’s primary agenda is to resolve the issues faced by farmers and common people, ensure better facilities, build a prosperous “Rangla Punjab,” strengthen national unity, and enhance the country’s security.
He added that in four years, the government has fulfilled 100% of its election guarantees and achieved historic milestones in corruption-free governance, all-round development, and employment, setting an example at the national level.
Speaking about the issues raised by border farmers, he said that Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann repeatedly raised the demand with the central government to shift the barbed wire fencing along the nearly 543-kilometre-long India-Pakistan international border in Punjab to the zero line. This issue was also strongly taken up in high-level meetings, including with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
As a result, nearly 12,000 farmer families living in hundreds of villages and towns along the border—including those in about a 100-kilometre stretch of the Ajnala sector—are set to receive major relief. Since 1992, the fencing had extended 2–3 kilometres inside Indian territory, bringing large areas of land under its control.
Now, either the fencing will be shifted closer to the zero line (about 100–150 metres), or farmers will be granted ownership rights of equivalent fertile land in exchange for the land that came under fencing. This demand had long been raised by the affected families, but previous Congress, Akali, and BJP governments had ignored it.
Dhaliwal further stated that the Punjab government’s Home and Justice Department has recently issued a notification empowering SDMs with collector-level powers to resolve land acquisition matters related to border security, BSF posts, roads, and infrastructure at the sub-division level instead of the state level.
A large number of border women, local residents, panch-sarpanches, councillors, and party volunteers attended the public outreach meetings.