Return of the Akali Dal led by Prakash Singh Badal: Punjab elections archive footage

Almost all the Indian polls had predicted the results and even before the counting was completed it was evident that the Akali BJP combined were romping home clear winners. The ruling Congress was decimated and the BSP which was the single largest opposition in the outgoing assembly was reduced to a single seat. The share of votes also confirmed the return of the Akali Dal led by Prakash Singh Badal and the erosion of the Congress vote bank.

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), English Supreme Akali Party, also called Akali Dal, a regional political party in Punjab state, northwestern India. It is the principal advocacy organization of the large Sikh community in the state and is centred on the philosophy of promoting the well-being of the country’s Sikh population by providing them with a political as well as a religious platform. The party also has a presence on the national political scene in New Delhi.

The SAD maintained a modest presence in the Lok Sabha (lower chamber of the Indian parliament), often consisting of only a small handful of seats from Punjab constituencies. Its highest seat total was nine in the 1977 elections, and it garnered eight in 1996, 1998, and 2004 contests. The party’s total was reduced to four seats in both the 2009 and 2014 elections. For many years the party remained unaligned with any of the national parties, but in 1998 it joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance coalition that ruled the country from 1998 to 2004. During that time the SAD was able to exert some influence on policy at the national level, especially with regard to India’s relations with Pakistan, with which Punjab shared a long international border. The party maintained its alliance with the BJP into the 21st century, and, following the BJP’s landslide win in 2014, SAD member Harsimrat Kaur Badal (the wife of Sukhbir Singh Badal) was named to the cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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