Won’t ally with BJP even if laws go: SAD

Tribune News Service

Bahadurgarh, January 4

Almost a decade after his father Parkash Singh Badal said that the tie-up with the BJP in Punjab would continue as long as he lived, his son and incumbent SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal today made it clear that “there would never be any future alliance with the saffron party now even if it rolled back the controversial farm laws”.

He said “the current situation had arisen due to the arrogance” of the Prime Minister. Earlier, addressing a congregation at Gurdwara Sahib Patshahi Nauvi Bahadurgarh, Sukhbir said: “Under no circumstances SAD will be part of the BJP either at the Centre or in the state. The BJP has backstabbed us and Punjab and there will be no looking back at our ties ever again, even if the farm laws are withdrawn,” he said. “Despite opposition to the farm ordinances immediately after they were promulgated, the PM announced he would not budge, come what may. It is this attitude which has made the farmer agitation stronger,” he said. He accused the Centre of misusing the position of the Punjab Governor by summoning officers for explanations to Raj Bhavan following complaints by the BJP.