Shiromani Akali Dal
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Mayawati says SAD-BSP alliance historic, calls it a new political & social initiative
India | Jun 12, 2021, 05:19 PM ISTThe Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) formed an alliance on Saturday for the 2022 Punjab Assembly election.
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SAD, BSP form alliance for 2022 Punjab Assembly polls
India | Jun 12, 2021, 03:38 PM ISTThe Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) formed an alliance on Saturday for the 2022 Punjab Assembly election.
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SAD demands probe into ambulance use by Mukhtar Ansari
India | Apr 06, 2021, 07:08 AM ISTThe 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.
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Sukhbir Singh Badal asks Rahul Gandhi why he played 'fixed match' on farm Bills
India | Oct 03, 2020, 08:05 PM ISTShiromani 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.
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Farm Bills: Shiromani Akali Dal will begin Kisan March on Oct 01
Politics | Sep 27, 2020, 10:24 PM ISTShiromani 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.
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SAD snapped ties with NDA 'out of compulsion': Sukhdev Dhindsa
India | Sep 27, 2020, 12:33 PM ISTThe 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.
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Farmers' 'victory', Akali Dal had to bow before their doorstep: Congress
India | Sep 27, 2020, 08:43 AM ISTThe 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".
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Akali Dal quits BJP-led NDA alliance over newly passed farm bills
India | Sep 26, 2020, 11:18 PM ISTThe 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).
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SAD to take call to remain in NDA after considering fate of farm bills in Rajya Sabha
India | Sep 18, 2020, 11:59 PM ISTThe 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.
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Punjab's economy is farm-based, new agri bills have scared farmers: Harsimrat Kaur
News | Sep 18, 2020, 04:35 PM ISTShiromani 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.
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SAD was left out of consultative process on new agri bills: Sukhbir Badal
News | Sep 18, 2020, 04:33 PM ISTThe 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.
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Alliance doesn't mean we'll agree with whatever BJP says: Akali Dal leader on farm bills
News | Sep 17, 2020, 01:40 PM ISTWhile 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.
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Shiromani Akali Dal leader, close aide of Bikram Singh Majithia, shot dead in Amritsar
India | Jan 02, 2020, 06:25 PM ISTA 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.
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SAD hails Citizenship Bill, but wants Muslims also covered
National | Dec 08, 2019, 08:03 PM ISTThe 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."
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SAD seeks probe into minister-gangster nexus in Punjab
India | Nov 24, 2019, 11:24 PM ISTThe 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.
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Akali leader shot dead in Punjab's Gurdaspur, legs chopped off after altercation with neighbour
Crime | Nov 19, 2019, 04:59 PM ISTThe incident took place at Dhilwan village in on Monday evening, police said.
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Haryana: SAD holds meeting for finalising candidates
Sep 23, 2019, 05:39 PM ISTSAD'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.
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SAD chief Sukhbir Badal, Harsimrat meet Amit Shah; urge rebuilding of Ravidas temple
India | Aug 26, 2019, 11:00 PM ISTThe Delhi Police arrested Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and 95 others on several charges, including rioting and unlawful assembly, following the protest.
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Protests continue against demolition of Delhi's Ravidas temple
India | Aug 12, 2019, 10:00 PM ISTCommenting 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.
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Amarinder Singh accuses Shiromani Akali Dal of shedding 'crocodile tears' over sacrilege issue
India | Jul 17, 2019, 08:52 PM ISTPunjab 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.