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  Farm Bills: Shiromani Akali Dal will begin Kisan March on Oct 01

  Politics | September 27, 2020 22:24 IST

  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.

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  SAD snapped ties with NDA 'out of compulsion': Sukhdev Dhindsa

  India | September 27, 2020 12:33 IST

  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.

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  Farmers' 'victory', Akali Dal had to bow before their doorstep: Congress

  India | September 27, 2020 8:43 IST

  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".

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  Akali Dal quits BJP-led NDA alliance over newly passed farm bills

  India | September 26, 2020 23:18 IST

  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).

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  SAD to take call to remain in NDA after considering fate of farm bills in Rajya Sabha

  India | September 18, 2020 23:59 IST

  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.

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  Punjab's economy is farm-based, new agri bills have scared farmers: Harsimrat Kaur

  News | September 18, 2020 16:35 IST

  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.

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  SAD was left out of consultative process on new agri bills: Sukhbir Badal

  News | September 18, 2020 16:33 IST

  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.

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  Alliance doesn't mean we'll agree with whatever BJP says: Akali Dal leader on farm bills

  News | September 17, 2020 13:40 IST

  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.

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  Shiromani Akali Dal leader, close aide of Bikram Singh Majithia, shot dead in Amritsar

  India | January 02, 2020 18:25 IST

  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.

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  SAD hails Citizenship Bill, but wants Muslims also covered

  National | December 08, 2019 20:03 IST

  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."

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  SAD seeks probe into minister-gangster nexus in Punjab

  India | November 24, 2019 23:24 IST

  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.

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  Akali leader shot dead in Punjab's Gurdaspur, legs chopped off after altercation with neighbour

  Crime | November 19, 2019 16:59 IST

  The incident took place at Dhilwan village in on Monday evening, police said.

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  Haryana: SAD holds meeting for finalising candidates

  September 23, 2019 17:39 IST

  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.

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  SAD chief Sukhbir Badal, Harsimrat meet Amit Shah; urge rebuilding of Ravidas temple

  India | August 26, 2019 23:00 IST

  The 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 | August 12, 2019 22:00 IST

  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. 

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  Amarinder Singh accuses Shiromani Akali Dal of shedding 'crocodile tears' over sacrilege issue

  India | July 17, 2019 20:52 IST

  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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  Badal 'bahu' back in Modi cabinet

  India | May 30, 2019 23:08 IST

  Wife of Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Badal and daughter-in-law of five-time Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, she retained the Bathinda Lok Sabha seat for a third consecutive term.

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  Amarinder Singh's career will end after Lok Sabha polls: Sukhbir Singh Badal

  May 16, 2019 13:17 IST

  Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal Wednesday accused Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh of "reneging" on poll promises and claimed the Congress leader's career will end after his party loses the Lok Sabha elections.

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  Harsimrat Kaur dribbles on assembly turf in LS battle

  May 10, 2019 18:49 IST

  It might be Modi versus Rahul Gandhi at the national level, in Bathinda, the rivalry between the Badals and Captain Amarinder Singh is playing to the hilt despite the general street-talk about under the cover bonhomie between the two key political families of Punjab.

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  Jagmeet Brar joins Shiromani Akali Dal; Amarinder calls him 'opportunist'

  April 19, 2019 16:46 IST

  Akali stalwart and five-time chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, his son and party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal and senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia welcomed Brar and his supporters into the party fold.