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Chandigarh:Punjab BJP chief Sunil Kumar Jakhar said Sunday that former chief minister Parkash Singh Badals historic move of stitching an alliance between the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the BJP was not a political move..
Jakhar was speaking at a gathering in the Badal village where the SAD organised a programme to mark the first death anniversary of Parkash Singh Badal..
Heaping praises on the SAD patriarch, Jakhar said Badal acted like a true statesman and rose above political differences to bond with the BJP ahead of the 1997 election..
The atmosphere in Punjab at that time was not particularly conducive for such an alliance many would have said that this move would not be acceptable to the panth (Sikh community) but Badal saab still did it because he knew the SAD-BJP alliance was the only way peace could return to Punjab and all divisions could be repaired, said Jakhar...
The SAD and the BJP remained allies for more than two decades but parted ways in September 2020 when the Punjab-led farmers started a protest on the borders of Delhi against the three central farm laws brought in by the Modi government..
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