With the ongoing tiff with political parties opposing the recently passed Farm Bill in the Indian Parliament, what seem to shake a lot in the political arena has been the number of alliances that BJP had seem to object the idea of Farm Bill and had opened opposed them.

One of the recent incidents to be seen today on September 28, was the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) break off from the alliance with BJP. They have been associated with BJP since the very beginning of inception of BJP as a party and considered as one of the oldest alliances for BJP.

This difference of opinion has not been quite a recent one as expressed by SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal, who in a conference on Saturday announced the party’s decision to break ties with the BJP. There has been a lot of disagreement and rather opinions have not been sought with them in many occasions since the last few years which has let to this sour incident for SAD.

Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal last night attacked the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) after her party quit the alliance over the controversial farm bills, which cleared the parliament last week. In a tweet, she said the NDA was no longer the alliance “envisioned” by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

“If pain & protests of 3 crpunjabis fail to melt the rigid stance of GoI (Government Of India), it’s no longer the #NDA envisioned by Vajpayee ji & Badal sahab. An alliance that turns a deaf ear to its oldest ally & a blind eye to pleas of those who feed the nation is no longer in the interest of Pb, (sic),” her tweet read.

There has been incidents where SAD’s opinions and requests were miss-heard like the Centre’s move to consider Kashmiri, Dogri, and Hindi as the official languages of J&K, while Punjabi is widely spoken in the region; Punjabi wasn’t considered as an official language even when the party’s chief – Sukhbir Singh Badal even wrote a letter to the Prime Minister – Narendra Modi to request the same to be considered but they never received any response.

Differences erupted between the two parties since last 2 years during the Lok Sabha elections.SAD wised to contest from Amritsar and Hoshiarpur seats, but the BJP did not agree to this.

Badal said that the farmer bills would bring really lethal and disastrous consequences on the famers that are already stressed out.

Post the BJP losing its third alliance since 2018, previous SAD-BJP government minister – Madan Mohan Mittal and a well-known figure in Punjab political arena said that, this decision of the Akalis will harm them more than the BJP.

But further feels, Parkash Singh Badal had not only kept the alliance together but also asserted time and again that the SAD-BJP ties were a guarantee of Sikh-Hindu amity in the state and further feels the reunion would happen soon.