Farm Politics: Akali exit could hasten BJP’s National ‘Isolation’

Situation assessment as on 05 October, 2020

Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD) decision to end their 24-year-old alliance on the controversial farm sector reforms, is likely to alter the power equation in Punjab. It is also likely to set-off a chain reaction at the national level. The study examines BJP’s inability to retain its former allies; larger implications of SAD exit; how non-BJP parties have become irrelevant having lost their ideological plane.

 

Situation assessment for the week ended 5 October (1,699 words)

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Date of SS: 05, October 2020