Venkat Parsa Within hours of Congress President Sonia Gandhi returning home to India after her medical check-up in the United States, the Akali Dal formalised its breakup with the BJP.
The Modi Establishment now looks shaky and vulnerable. Especially after six years of appearing unassailable. Though now, it is feeling the political heat being turned on it by Congress.
Sonia Gandhi sowed the seeds for it, before leaving for the US, it by preparing the ground for vehement opposition to the three Agriculture Bills of the Modi Government. Now her efforts have borne fruit, with Akali Dal walking out on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Shiromani Akali Dal Core Committee has decided unanimously to pull out of the ruling BJP-led NDA, because of the Modi Government’s stubbornness on Agriculture Bills. The Akali Dal is also unhappy that the ruling dispensation excluded the Punjabi language as an official language in the Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory.
The formal announcement to pullout from the NDA came from Akali Dal President Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal, days after he removed the sole Akali Dal Minister, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, from the Modi Government.
The snapping of ties between the Akali Dal and the BJP is complete.
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