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India | June 12, 2021 17:19 ISTThe Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) formed an alliance on Saturday for the 2022 Punjab Assembly election.
The Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) formed an alliance on Saturday for the 2022 Punjab Assembly election.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) formed an alliance on Saturday for the 2022 Punjab Assembly election.
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday sought a probe into the use of a private ambulance by Punjab police for ferrying gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from jail to a court last week.
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Saturday asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to tell Punjabis why he had played a "fixed match" to facilitate the passage of the three "anti-farmer" agricultural Bills in Parliament.
Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal on September 27 said that the party will undertake 'Kisan March' from October 01 from the three Takhts to oppose the Farm Bills.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had on Saturday quit the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the farm bills issue, the third major party to walk out of the BJP-led coalition in the last couple of years.
The SAD is the third major party to walk out of the BJP-led coalition in the last couple of years. Reacting to the development, Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala hailed it as a "victory" of "farmers-labourers".
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), whose lone minister in the Modi government, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, had resigned while protesting against the new farm bills, the party and NDA's one of the oldest allies on Saturday decided to end its alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) will take a call on whether to remain in the BJP-led NDA or not after taking into consideration the fate of three contentious farm bills in Rajya Sabha and consulting its cadre, party sources said on Friday, a day after its lone Union minister quit the government.
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who resigned as Union Minister on September 17 to protest against the agriculture bills, said the centre should pass the bills after consultation with stakeholders.
The president of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Sukhbir Singh Badal, said the party tried their best to resolve the issue with the BJP regarding the new agriculture bills, but were left out of the consultative process for deliberating on them.
While speaking to ANI in the national capital on September 17, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Balwinder Singh Bhunder spoke on agriculture bills which the party is opposing.
A local Shiromani Akali Dal leader was shot dead by three motorcycle-borne assailants at Umarpura village here when he was coming out of a gurdwara after offering prayers, police said on Thursday.
The party appreciated the Bill and said, "The NDA government has fulfilled the demand of the SAD as well as all minorities, including Sikhs, Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians, who had fled religious persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and taken refuge in India."
The SAD leaders said a central inquiry by the CBI or the National Investigation Agency (NIA) or even by a sitting judge of the high court could alone expose the minister-gangster-police nexus in the murder of Dhilwan and the extortion racket.
The incident took place at Dhilwan village in on Monday evening, police said.
SAD's General Secretary in-charge Balwinder Singh Bhunder made the remark after holding a party meeting on Monday in Kurukshetra in Haryana, where the aspirants of party tickets from over 30 seats in the state turned up along with their 4,000-odd supporters.
The Delhi Police arrested Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and 95 others on several charges, including rioting and unlawful assembly, following the protest.
Commenting on the demolition of the temple believed to be on the site visited by Guru Ravidas around 1509 during the reign of Sikander Lodhi, Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar extended his party's support to the Ravidas community.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday accused the SAD of “shedding crocodile tears” over the state-wide desecration of religious texts in 2015, asserting that his government would take the matter to its logical end.
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