It was mid-May, the time when the peak summer sun dries up all wellsprings of generosity. That’s when the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab launched Land Pooling Policy (LPP), 2025. It was a striking idea: bunching together 65,533 acres for industrial and residential projects. In retrospect, though, someone should have foreseen that, in a state where land is scarce and has much symbolic and material value, the move would generate enough heat to scald the government. The inevitable reversal took only a couple of months.
