Akali Dal Core Committee Meeting

"Despite our differences with BJP over farm laws, issue of release of imprisoned Sikhs, and others, we have decided to back their candidate," said party president Sukhbir Badal after the party's core committee meeting in Chandigarh.

The Shiromani Akali Dal on Tuesday seemed to pass the buck to the BJP for the alliance's poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, with the party concluding at a core committee meeting in Chandigarh that Punjab's Dalit voters gravitated towards other parties for fear that the Narendra Modi government may scrap the reservation system if it return...

Punjab chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has called for an emergency core committee meeting of his party, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), today to discuss the issue of clemency for Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is on death row for the assassination of former Chief Minister Beant Singh.

"Despite our differences with BJP over farm laws, issue of release of imprisoned Sikhs, and others, we have decided to back their candidate," said party president Sukhbir Badal after the party's core committee meeting in Chandigarh.

The Shiromani Akali Dal on Tuesday seemed to pass the buck to the BJP for the alliance's poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, with the party concluding at a core committee meeting in Chandigarh that Punjab's Dalit voters gravitated towards other parties for fear that the Narendra Modi government may scrap the reservation system if it return...

Punjab chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has called for an emergency core committee meeting of his party, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), today to discuss the issue of clemency for Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is on death row for the assassination of former Chief Minister Beant Singh.