Ludhiana, June 8 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Delhi minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa launched a blistering attack on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of trying to seize the land of Punjab farmers under the guise of newly launched land pooling policy by the AAP government in the state.

Sirsa, who was in Ludhiana to campaign for BJP's Ludhiana West bypoll candidate Jiwan Gupta, alleged that Kejriwal is plotting to seize land from Punjab's farmers "and hand it over to his 'Delhi' friends".

"Just as Kejriwal had pressured Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann to appoint his loyalists to powerful posts in the state administration, he is now engineering a systemati...