{"id":326880,"date":"2020-09-26T17:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T17:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326880"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:55:26","slug":"shiromani-akali-dal-breaks-ties-with-bjp-led-nda-over-farm-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shiromani-akali-dal-breaks-ties-with-bjp-led-nda-over-farm-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiromani Akali Dal breaks ties with BJP-led NDA over farm bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/shiromani-akali-dal-breaks-ties-with-bjp-led-nda-over-farm-bills\/sukhbir\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326881\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326881 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sukhbir-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/sukhbir-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/sukhbir-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/sukhbir-1024x608.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/sukhbir-696x414.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/sukhbir-707x420.jpg 707w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/sukhbir.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a>The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), one of the oldest allies of the BJP on Saturday decided to pull out of the BJP-led NDA alliance over the farm bills, which have triggered protest by farmers across Punjab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">SAD took this decision in the core committee meeting under the leadership of party president Sukhbir Singh Badal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;Shiromani Akali Dal core committee decides unanimously to pull out of the BJP-led #NDA because of the Centre\u2019s stubborn refusal to give statutory legislative guarantees to protect assured marketing of crops on #MSP and its continued insensitivity to Punjabi and #Sikh issues,&#8221; Sukhbir Badal said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On September 21, A delegation of SAD met President Ram Nath Kovind over farm bills. After meeting the president, Sukhbir Singh Badal said, \u201cWe requested the President not to sign on \u2018anti-farmer\u2019 bills that have been forcefully passed in Rajya Sabha. We requested him to send back the bills to the Parliament.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Apart from Badal, Akali MP Naresh Gujral and former MP Prem Singh Chandumajra were also present at the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On September 17, Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from the Modi government in protest against the farm bills.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), one of the oldest allies of the BJP on Saturday decided to pull out of the BJP-led NDA alliance over the farm bills, which have triggered protest by farmers across Punjab. SAD took this decision in the core committee meeting under the leadership of party president Sukhbir Singh Badal. &#8220;Shiromani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":326881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[453,13451,895,2688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355779,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326880\/revisions\/355779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}