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Akali Dal declares more candidates in Punjab; party announces support to INLD in Haryana

The Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday announced the second list of its candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha election in Punjab and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, even as former Congress Punjab president Mohinder Singh Kaypee joined the Akali Dal. SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, who announced the names of candidates in Jalandhar, said Mr. Kaypee, a three-time MLA, “is …

Several top opposition leaders, including NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, CPI's Sitaram Yechury and Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal, congregated for a grand rally of the INLD organised in Haryana's Fatehabad on Sunday. SAD's Sukhbir Singh Badal, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, CPIM's Sitaram Yechury, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala …

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his deputy Tejashwi Yadav and several opposition leaders will attend the Indian National Lok Dal’s public rally on September 25 in Haryana, party leader Abhay Chautala said Tuesday. Chautala has invited Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, Samajwadi party president Akhilesh Yadav and …

Asking the government to accept farmers’ demand to repeal the three recent central laws, the Indian National Lok Dal on Friday expressed its willingness to join any front floated by the Shiromani Akali Dal to further the tillers’ and other causes. The party also said it has asked its district presidents and other office-bearers to take party’s Kisan Cell members …