Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday spoke to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal and enqu𝐆ired about the health of party patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, who has been hospitalised due to illness.
The Badal senior, who is 95 and a five-time chief minister of Punjab, has been adm🍒ﷺitted to a private hospital in Mohali following complaints of breathing difficulties.
"Concerned to know that the veteran leader Sꦏhri Parkash Singh Badal Ji is unwell and admitted to hospital. Had a telephone discussion ab🦂out his health with Shri Sukhbir Singh Badal Ji," Shah tweeted.
The SAD was an ally of the ruling BJP but left the saffron party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in September 2020 over the passage of three agri-marketing bi♑lls in Parliament.
The party also pulled out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's governm💫ent with the resignation of Sukhbir Singh Badal's wife Harsimrat Kaཧur Badal.
The SAD did not rejoin ജeven a🦄fter the Modi government scrapped the farm laws. The SAD was one of the oldest allies of the BJP.
The SAD and the BJP first stitched together♏ a pre-poll alliance for the 1997 Punjab Assembly elections, which continued through the 20💖19 parliamentary polls and till September 2020.
