Will Akali Dal-BSP Alliance Tie Up With BJP After Punjab Polls? What Bikram Majithia Said

As Punjab voted for the Assembly Election, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia said the decision on forming an alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the results are declared.

Punjab Assembly Election 2022, Punjab Assembly Election, Punjab Election, punjab polls, punjab election, akali dal, BJP, congress, Bikram Singh Majithia, congress, akali dal bsp alliance — Bikram Majithia said that he is fighting for the "people of Punjab" and "Amritsar East needs development". (Photo: AFP)

New Delhi: As Punjab voted for the Assembly Election, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia said the decision on forming an alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the results are declared. Sukhbir Badal-led Akali Dal and Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have formed an alliance for the Punjab Assembly Election.

“We will decide on the tie-up with the BJP after the state Assembly polls,” Bikram Singh Majithia, the brother-in-law of Sukhbir Badal, was quoted as saying by India Today.

Majithia said that he is fighting for the “people of Punjab” and “Amritsar East needs development”. “There are poor people who do not get welfare schemes. It is the most backward. The truth will win,” Majithia said, according to the report.

Bikram Majithia is contesting the Punjab polls from two Assembly seats – Amritsar East and Majithia. A high-stakes battle is being witnessed from Amritsar East Assembly seat where Majithia is facing off Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. Considering a Congress stronghold, Amritsar (East), the seat that came into being after 2012 delimitation, has backed Sidhu and his namesake wife since then for twice.

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Earlier, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Badal said SAD-BSP alliance will sweep the polls in Punjab and there is no question of rejoining the BJP-led NDA government. “The issue is not of farm laws alone. Issue is of the manner in which the entire matter was handled by the BJP. More than 800 farmers were martyred simply because of the intransigent attitude of the BJP,” Badal said, news agency IANS reported.

The Akali Dal was in alliance with the BSP in the 1996 Lok Sabha polls. At that time BSP supremo Kanshi Ram and the Akalis fought elections together and won 11 out of 13 seats in Punjab.

Voting for 117-member Punjab Assembly seats is being held on Sunday. In the 2017 Assembly elections, Congress had won an absolute majority by winning 77 seats in the Punjab Assembly and ousted the SAD-BJP government after 10 years.