“Land acquisition is becoming a bane of farmers in Haryana as the land is allegedly acquired to give benefit to brokers in most of the cases and the poor farmer is the scapegoat," former spokesperson of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee Ved Prakash Virodhi today said.

Stressing that the land acquisition by the government should only be for public service utilities and done in a transparent manner, fully protecting the interests of the affected farmers, he said the Haryana government should immediately stop all land acquisition processes and wait for the new amended Land Acquisition Bill which is on the anvil. He said the Bill had been finalised and was likely to be passed in the Budget Session of Parliament.