Bjp-akali Alliance

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has ruled out the possibility of the BJP reviving its alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) for the Lok Sabha polls next year.

There is no possibility of the BJP entering into an alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal again and it will contest all elections in Punjab on its own, the party's state unit chief Ashwani Sharma said on Saturday.

Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party or AAP, which did not exist when Punjab last voted for its state government, has crashed the big-league by binge-eating, equally, into the vote share of the Congress and the BJP-Akali Dal alliance.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance's agenda aims to protect the interests of the state and ensure its development, unlike the Congress' "divide and rule" policy.

The Congress is yesterday's news and now collapsing across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Punjab today, advising the state to stick with the time-tested Parkash Singh Badal, once the youngest chief minister and now the oldest. Punjab votes for a new government next week and PM Modi asked the state to return the Akali Dal-BJP for an ...

The addition of the Aam Aadmi Party in a traditionally bipolar contest will help the ruling BJP-Akali Dal alliance in the upcoming Punjab assembly elections next month, Union Minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, also taking shots at "absentee" representatives in an apparent jab at cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu who defe...

Navjot Singh Sidhu, whose quest for a new political party has reportedly led him to the Congress, today met Rahul Gandhi in Delhi for talks that lasted 45 minutes. It was not immediately clear if the cricketer turned politician is any closer to fixing a joining date, but the meeting happened just before Mr Gandhi met other party leaders to select c...

Punjab's ruling BJP-Akali Dal alliance has scored a landslide win in municipal elections in capital Chandigarh, just ahead of crucial state assembly polls. The allies have won 21 of the 26 seats - the BJP taking 20, Akali Dal one - while the Congress has had to settle for just four. One seat has been won by an independent candidate. BJP chief Amit ...

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today said his party can end the drug problem in Punjab in one month if it is voted to power in the elections next year, accusing the ruling BJP-Akali Dal alliance of fostering the illegal trade in the state.

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has ruled out the possibility of the BJP reviving its alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) for the Lok Sabha polls next year.

There is no possibility of the BJP entering into an alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal again and it will contest all elections in Punjab on its own, the party's state unit chief Ashwani Sharma said on Saturday.

Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party or AAP, which did not exist when Punjab last voted for its state government, has crashed the big-league by binge-eating, equally, into the vote share of the Congress and the BJP-Akali Dal alliance.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance's agenda aims to protect the interests of the state and ensure its development, unlike the Congress' "divide and rule" policy.

The Congress is yesterday's news and now collapsing across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Punjab today, advising the state to stick with the time-tested Parkash Singh Badal, once the youngest chief minister and now the oldest. Punjab votes for a new government next week and PM Modi asked the state to return the Akali Dal-BJP for an ...

The addition of the Aam Aadmi Party in a traditionally bipolar contest will help the ruling BJP-Akali Dal alliance in the upcoming Punjab assembly elections next month, Union Minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, also taking shots at "absentee" representatives in an apparent jab at cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu who defe...

Navjot Singh Sidhu, whose quest for a new political party has reportedly led him to the Congress, today met Rahul Gandhi in Delhi for talks that lasted 45 minutes. It was not immediately clear if the cricketer turned politician is any closer to fixing a joining date, but the meeting happened just before Mr Gandhi met other party leaders to select c...

Punjab's ruling BJP-Akali Dal alliance has scored a landslide win in municipal elections in capital Chandigarh, just ahead of crucial state assembly polls. The allies have won 21 of the 26 seats - the BJP taking 20, Akali Dal one - while the Congress has had to settle for just four. One seat has been won by an independent candidate. BJP chief Amit ...

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today said his party can end the drug problem in Punjab in one month if it is voted to power in the elections next year, accusing the ruling BJP-Akali Dal alliance of fostering the illegal trade in the state.