‘How is this question even arising' SAD dismisses speculation of reuniting with BJP
alliance with the BSP, so how is this question even arising? This is our routine meeting. I have come after a month, so we are having a routine meeting. We held the meeting to discuss the VAT increase and water issues, said the President of Shiromani Akali Dal, Sukhbir Singh Badal.
The SAD was a close ally of the BJP in Punjab and had also fought many state elections together. However, SAD broke its alliance with the party over three farm laws that were eventually repealed. Earlier on 5 July, Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring had claimed that the SAD and the BJP never really parted ways.
The SAD pulling out of the BJP-led NDA over the farmers' issue was a "drama" and it remains to be seen when they announce joining hands again, he said. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann at an event had said now rejected leaders are forging new alliances or mending old ones against him, adding that the sole motive of such alliances was to grab political power in the state by hook or by crook. In Amritsar, BJP leader and former Gujarat chief minister Rupani was also asked by reporters about the speculation of a BJP-SAD tie-up.
He said the BJP would form government at the Centre for the third time in 2024. In Punjab, the BJP will fight all 13 Lok Sabha seats alone, asserted Rupani. Meanwhile, on Thusday, party had also formed a sub-committee to take all views on the proposed Uniform Civil Code (UCC) into consideration and prepare a case for submission to the Law Commission.
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