Jammu, Aug. 11 -- Narendra Modi is wooing all former allies for passing Delimitation Bill
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers
The SAD-BJP thaw is more interesting than a routine parliamentary numbers game. The immediate trigger is delimitation and women's reservation, but the larger question is whether two estranged political partners are quietly testing the waters for a reunion before the 2027 Punjab Assembly election. The tension of the renewed alliance rests on: principle or political survival?
The Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party have not yet announced that they are getting back together. But politics in Punjab has already begun to sound like a marriage counsellor's waiting room.
Six years after the Shiromani Akali Dal walke...