BJP's oldest ally Shiromani Akali Dal quits NDA over Modi govt's farm Bills

Development comes days after SAD's Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned as Union Food Processing Minister

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) oldest ally in Punjab and at the national level, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the Narendra Modi government’s controversial farm Bills. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal made this announcement after holding a core committee meeting of the party in Chandigarh late evening on Saturday.
 
The highest decision-making body of the SAD at its emergency meeting decided unanimously to pull out of the NDA alliance, he said.

With this, the SAD has become the third major NDA ally to pull out of the grouping. The other