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...The election offered some solace to Congress, which capitalised on intense anti-incumbent sentiment towards the Shiromani Akali Dal, Punjab’s previous ruling party, to win power in the fertile northern state...
...The film Udta Punjab — or “Flying Punjab,” a reference to youth high on drugs — had angered the state’s ruling party, the Shiromani Akali Dal, which has been in power for 10 years....
...His edict followed complaints by Shiromani Akali Dal, the political party that has ruled Punjab for nearly a decade and is allied with Mr Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party, that the film defamed the state, which...
...Punjab has been ruled for the last decade by the Shiromani Akali Dal party, and the powerful Badal family, which is allied with Mr Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party....
...Barring the Shiv Sena and the Akali Dal, which share some of the core ideological premises of the BJP, most parties are guided by opportunism and shift their allegiance according to circumstances....
...In Punjab, the local Sikh party Shiromani Akali Dal beat Congress with 56 seats against 46....
...However, the emphatic electoral victories of the Samajwadi party and Akali Dal, in UP and Punjab respectively, are seen to have critically weakened Congress’s authority in Delhi and bolstered that of regional...
...The SGPC, known as the Sikhs’ parliament, offered the journalist a job and legal expenses, and the Shiroman Akali Dal, a Sikh political party, offered him a $4,000 reward and to make him a parliamentary...
...Dal (Panthik), a political party in Punjab....
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