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TopicSukhbir Badal

Topic: Sukhbir Badal

‘Why so much govt support?’ Sukhbir Badal questions Amritpal’s poll debut, alleges he is a BJP ‘plant’

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.

Farmers’ agitation puts Akali Dal on a sticky wicket amid alliance talks with BJP

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.  

Eye on 2024, Sukhbir apologises to Sikhs for sacrilege, his govt’s failure to nab culprits

‘You can say sorry for a mistake, not a crime,’ was Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s response to Badal’s apology.

SAD chief seeks PM’s intervention over judicial appointments

Sukhbir Badal urged PM Modi to resolve issues related to the omission of Sikh community in HC nominations

Top SAD leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa joins BJP, Akalis claim he was ‘forced’ to join

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.

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. 

Amarinder gifts Sukhbir Hitler’s Mein Kampf, he throws Andher Nagari Chaupat Raja at CM

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.

No community, even if .0001% in size, should feel it’s not part of India: Sukhbir Badal

SAD president & former Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Badal says NDA govt has raked up an “unnecessary controversy” by excluding Muslims from the CAA.

Congress can’t seem to find anyone to take on Harsimrat Badal in Lok Sabha polls

Harsimrat Kaur Badal is the Akali candidate from Bathinda, a seat she's won twice and one that's a party stronghold.

There’s a cloud hanging over the Badals, and this report is the reason why

The report held Dera Sacha Sauda men responsible for the 2015 desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib in Punjab. It has also put the Badals in the dock.

On Camera

India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.