Shiromani Akali Dal
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The. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is a centre-right Sikh-centric state political party in Punjab, India. The party is the second-oldest in India, after Congress, being founded in 1920. Although there are many parties with the description Akali Dal, generally the party that is recognised as "Shiromani Akali Dal" by the Election Commission of India is the one led by Sukhbir Singh Badal. It controls Sikh religious bodies, the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee and the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and it is the largest and most influential Sikh political party worldwide. The basic philosophy of Akali Dal was to give a political voice to Sikh issues and it believed that religion and politics go hand in hand but after the 1996 Moga Conference the party adopted a moderate Punjabi secular agenda. On 26 September 2020, they left the NDA over the farms bill.
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Akali Dal-BSP will win 80-plus seats in Punjab, says Sukhbir Singh BadalShiromani Akali Dal leader chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, who is contesting from Jalalabad in Punjab Assembly elections, said that the SAD-BSP alliance will make a clean sweep in the state and claimed that..IndiaTimes - Published | |
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Drug trafficking case: SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia granted protection from arrest till February 23IndiaTimes - Published | |
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'Incident should not be politicised': Sukhbir Singh Badal on Golden Temple sacrilege attemptAkali Dal Chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said that the alleged sacrilege incident in Golden Temple should not be politicised any further.DNA - Published | |
Ex-Punjab AAP convener Chhotepur joins SAD; will contest assembly polls from BatalaFormer Punjab AAP convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur joined the Shiromani Akali Dal in the presence of party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal here on Thursday and will contest the upcoming polls from the Batala..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Amarinder, Badals secretly working on seat-sharing pact: ChanniPunjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday accused his predecessor Amarinder Singh and the Shiromani Akali Dal of being secretly engaged in a seat-sharing exercise ahead of the Assembly..IndiaTimes - Published | |
BJP in talks with Amarinder, Dhindsa for alliance in Punjab: ShahUnion Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the BJP is in talks with former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh and former Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa to forge an..IndiaTimes - Published | Coercive tactics used to force Manjinder Sirsa to join BJP: SukhbirChandigarh, Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday alleged that coercive tactics were used to put pressure on Manjinder Singh Sirsa to join the BJP. Badal said that the BJP-led..IndiaTimes - Published |
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A Dalit CM hurt Sidhu ego, says SAD; BJP takes ‘own gain’ digIndiaTimes - Published | Amarinder Singh: The Maharaja who abdicated before his timeIt's still unclear if Amarinder Singh will remain in Congress or join BJP, old rival Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) or the Aam Aadmi PartyDNA - Published |
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You have surrendered to Modi: Shiromani Akali Dal to Amarinder over payment to farmers through DBTIndiaTimes - Published | Shiromani Akali Dal says MHA defaming Punjab through allegations of bonded labour in border areasIndiaTimes - Published |
Mukhtar Ansari being kept as 'state guest', says Akali DalIndiaTimes - Published | Counting of votes for Punjab urban local bodies underwayThe main contest in the urban local bodies is among the Congress, the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).DNA - Published |
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Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch, ex-Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal returns Padma Vibhushan to protest 'betrayal of farmers'Badal wrote that betrayal of the farmers by the government is like "bolts from the blue on the already beleaguered peasantry of the country".DNA - Published | Political parties in Punjab gearing up for 2022 assembly electionsCongress party's main political opponents Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD(B)) and BJP are fighting their own battle of survival. The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) after a dismal end of its political honeymoon..DNA - Published |
Sukhbir Badal urges PM Modi to take up transfer of Kartarpur shrine management to trust with PakSAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take up with Pakistan the transfer of Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara's management from a Sikh body to a separate trust and..IndiaTimes - Published | Buzz of YSRC joining NDA as Jagan set to meet ModiBJP, sources said, wants YSRC to join the NDA as the exits of Shiv Sena earlier this year and the Shiromani Akali Dal last month have brought down the NDA's strength in the Rajya Sabha to 113. Sources..IndiaTimes - Published |
