Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Friday announced that the party would give 50 per cent seats to women in panchayat and local body elections, besides reserving 33 per cent seats for women in the state Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.Addressing...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said the Supreme Court has directed Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government to pay Rs 450 crore it is spending on advertisements towards completion of the Delhi-Meerut RRTS project, and called...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday lambasted the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab for making huge announcements but failing to provide requisite machines to deal with paddy stubble.“Bhagwant Mann had earlier announced...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday condemned the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for putting an unprecedented burden on the common person and farmers by repeatedly increasing VAT on petrol and diesel, including the latest hike which...

Ahead of the meeting of the Haryana and Himachal Pradesh Chief Ministers on the issue of water sharing next week, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Friday said Haryana did not have any right on water from the Ravi-Beas river basin in Himachal...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Friday accused the AAP government in Punjab of trying to muzzle the voice of media ever since it assumed power."The government has registered false cases against journalists besides banning web channels and...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Tuesday said once elected to power, the SAD-BSP alliance government would probe the lapses, including withdrawal of security that led to the murder of noted singer Sidhu Moosewala.In a statement here, he said...

After chastening a humiliating loss less than a year ago, the 13-month AAP government in Punjab is set for a litmus test in a four-cornered another fierce contest for the Jalandhar parliamentary reserved seat in the Dalit-dominated Doaba region, traditionally...

Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Badal on Tuesday demanded a high-level, independent probe, preferably by a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, into "popular belief that there is a deep-rooted conspiracy behind the series of provocative incidents...

Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Badal on Friday sought repeal of all "anti-democratic and repressive black laws" like the National Security Act (NSA) and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and called for stoppage of their "rampant and brazen...

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) alliance on Tuesday announced the candidature of two-time Punjab legislator Sukhwinder Singh Sukhi as its joint candidate for the Jalandhar parliamentary bypoll slated on May 10.SAD President Sukhbir...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday said Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had betrayed the industrial sector by invoking a hike in industrial power tariff despite promising to supply power to the sector at the rate of Rs 5 per...

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Badal on Monday came down heavily against "the puppet AAP regime in Punjab for the undeclared emergency and reign of repression and terror let loose in the state". He also warned against "dangerous conspiracies to defame...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Friday requested Union External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to take up the case of 700 Punjabi students, who face imminent deportation from Canada due to no fault of theirs, with the Canadian authorities.In...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Friday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab had played another fraud by fudging figures to paint a rosy picture in Budget 2023-24 but was actually leading the state to financial ruin by increasing...

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday urged Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit to dismiss the Bhagwant Mann government for its "gross failure" to maintain law and order, while also accusing it of indulging in corruption running into hundreds of crores...

Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday joined the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee's (SGPC) signature campaign seeking release of 'Bandi Singhs' in villages across Punjab by signing a petition at the gurdwara in Badal village.Former...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said repeated scams in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) regime, including the latest admission in the high court that the Naib Tehsildar recruitment process was scam ridden, had exposed Chief Minister...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said the Union Budget 2023-24 disappointed farmers, rural poor and youth, besides failing to do anything to revive the agricultural and the industrial sector in Punjab.Reacting to the Budget,...

Describing Samajwadi patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav as a socialist icon and known for empowering the under-privileged, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Monday said the nation has lost a doyen.The Samajwadi Party founder passed away on Monday...