SAD-BJP story over,Congress no more a pan-India party- Sukhbir Badal

Shriomani Akali Dal (SAD)'s story with the BJP was over. "SAD is a farmers' party and their issues are core of our ideology. The party president Sukhbir Singh Badal said that issues of farmers are at the core of the SAD  Badal said his party can never compromise on these and, therefore, severed its decades-old alliance with the BJP and moved out of the government at the Centre over three contentious farm laws.

He suggested that now the time has come  that regional parties should come together and form a national front to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Talking to a news agency, he claim that the alliance between BSP and SAD is permanent. Badal said that the SAD is talking to various regional parties so that they all can come on one platform before the 2024 general elections. Regional forces are more connected to the ground and have better understanding of the people. Badal further said it would be a second front rather than a third front as the main opposition Congress is no more a pan-India party. The BJP will be the new front's main target.

 Badal said, farm laws will be the main issue for the Akali Dal in Punjab and "if the party is voted to power, it will provide government job to a family member of all those farmers who lost their lives during the ongoing protest against the laws." In addition, the government will provide free education to the children of the farmers who have died and pension to the parents of those who died young, Badal said.