AAP says SAD-BJP alliance ‘finalised’, Akalis hit back at ‘false feed to media’

The Shiromani Akali Dal, however, rubbished the claims with senior party leader Daljit Singh Cheema slamming the AAP for spreading misinformation to “divert attention from the AAP and the Congress’ unprincipled and unholy alliance”.

Both the Congress and the AAP are part of the opposition INDIA bloc.

Kang said, “The terms of the alliance are already decided… the BJP does not want SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and his brother-in-law Bikram Singh Majithia to contest the Lok Sabha elections. People in the BJP know the obvious dislike the people of Punjab have for these two leaders”.

The AAP leader also claimed that “behind the curtain”, the BJP and the SAD were “always one and never separated”.
The SAD broke off its ties with the BJP over the now-repealed farm laws in 2020. It had been part of the National Democratic Alliance since 1997, having stitched up a pre-poll alliance with the BJP ahead of the assembly elections in Punjab that year.

Kang claimed that the SAD only did the “drama” of breaking its alliance with the BJP to “mislead” people during the farmers’ protest. “But the people of Punjab already hate both the parties and their alliance will only make the public dislike them even more,” he said.

He further said, “The SAD and the BJP are a team but they are not announcing it to the public yet because they are scared of the ire they will face from the people of Punjab.”

Earlier, Kang asked SAD if it had forgiven the BJP for the death of 750 farmers. “The SAD has always accused the BJP of interference in Sikh matters through the Haryana and Delhi Gurdwara Parbandhak Committees. Has that stopped now? And what about the Padma Vibhushan that the late Parkash Singh Badal returned to show support to farmers’ protest? Will the Badal family accept that again?” he asked

Kang also targeted Harsimrat over the three controversial farm laws, which were cleared in a Cabinet meeting that she had allegedly attended. The minutes of the meeting were never made public because, he alleged, these two parties had always tacitly supported each other.

Kang said the people would never accept the “unholy alliance” between the SAD and the BJP. “The SAD has no ground left in Punjab. That is why they have been trying to make this alliance happen for a long time now,” he said.
Responding to Kang’ claims, SAD leader Cheema asked the AAP to stop its misinformation campaign. “The AAP wants to divert public attention from the AAP-Congress unprincipled and unholy alliance, which both the parties are not able to explain to the public,” he said in a post on X.

Cheema also asked AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal what his compulsion is to make his party spokesperson provide false statements to the media.