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Sunday, May 5, 2024
TopicShiromani Akali Dal

Topic: Shiromani Akali Dal

Punjab polls a year away but Akalis start campaign, announce 2 party candidates too

Experts see Akalis’ early preparation as good strategy since the election is likely to be a major challenge for the 100-year-old party, which broke up with BJP over farm laws last year.

9 Akali Dal MLAs from Punjab booked for trying to confront Haryana CM outside Assembly

The MLAs had allegedly gheraoed Manohar Lal Khattar outside the assembly hall on 10 March and had demanded that a resolution be passed in the state assembly against the farm laws.

2 killed in clash between Congress and Akali workers in Punjab’s Moga district

Akali workers, who were campaigning for the 14 February municipal polls, alleged that Congress activists ran their vehicles over them when they tried to flee.

Sukhbir Badal’s vehicle pelted with stones in Punjab’s Jalalabad, claims SAD

Shiromani Akali Dal media advisor Jangveer Singh also alleged that Akali workers were attacked by Congress workers, led by son of MLA Raminder Singh Awla.

SAD to deploy workers at Singhu, Tikri, says NDA govt ‘stooping low’ to fail farmers’ protest

SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia demands filing of criminal cases against Delhi Police personnel and BJP ‘goons’, who attacked farmers in Singhu Friday.

Shiromani Akali Dal asks party cadre to join farmers’ protests in Delhi

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal spoke to farmer leader Rakesh Tikait and discussed ways to shore up more strength and support for the farmers' agitation, a party statement said.

Bad news for Badals ahead of SGPC polls as HC tells CBI to hand over sacrilege probe to police

Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday ordered CBI to hand over case, in which Akali leaders are the accused, to the Punjab Police, a long-standing demand of ruling Congress. 

NDA just lost its 19th ally since 2014, but here’s why Modi-Shah pretend they can’t care less

The only way to look at Modi’s and Shah’s seeming indifference to departing allies has to be in the context of the BJP’s expansion plans and its willingness to shed unwanted, extra baggage.

Manjinder Sirsa — SAD MLA & once BJP advocate who is now behind langars at farmers’ agitation

Sirsa is also president of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, which has set up the largest single langar service at the protest site. 

Centre trying to force farm laws like it imposed demonetisation, GST, says Sukhbir Badal

The SAD chief also hit out at the central government for allegedly trying to project the protesting farmers as 'anti-national' and demanded that the Centre repeal the new farm laws.

On Camera

‘Trade, not aid’—Narasimha Rao’s 1991 reforms speech that changed India’s economic landscape

On 9 July 1991, then-PM PV Narasimha Rao addressed the nation days before the Budget presentation, admitting that the job of repairing India's sick economy won't be easy, quick, or smooth.

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.