For the Akali Dal, out of power for 7 years now, these elections will also set the tone for 2027 assembly polls. According to party leaders, there's more enthusiasm this time.
Akali leader adds that BJP has reached a point where it only wants to win. Punjab has no space for militancy & people are nationalists & want peace, he asserts.
The last round of farmer protests ended a decades-long alliance between SAD & BJP. With another agitation gathering steam, SAD is learnt to be ‘unwilling’ to suffer political damage.
Sirsa was considered close to Badal family that heads SAD, and move is seen as blow to panthic party ahead of assembly elections in Punjab early next year.
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.
Amarinder Singh sends Mein Kampf to Sukhbir Badal, so that the Akali MP can “understand dangerous implications” of CAA. Sukhbir responds with play on a failed ruler.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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