BJP is now focusing on ‘winning Punjab’ in the 2027 assembly elections. Therefore, it will definitely make an agreement with a faction of the Akali Dal. The way the situation is, it seems that this agreement will be made by the BJP only with the potential Akali Dal to be formed after the recruitment done by the 5-member committee. The majority of the members of the recruitment committee want the Akali Dal to have an agreement with the BJP so that it can gain power. The truth is that the recruitment committee is getting good support from the people. But making an agreement with the BJP will not be easy for the new Akali Dal. Before this, the Modi government will have to release the captive Sikhs, accept the demands of farmers and Punjab. So far, the BJP has been publicly stating that the BJP will not make an agreement with anyone in Punjab.
But according to inside information, the BJP wants the general elections of the SGPC to be held in the middle of 2025, because everyone knows that the Akali Dal is mainly influenced among the Sikhs by the one who wins the SGPC elections. This has happened before during the fight between the factions of Master Tara Singh, Sant Fateh Singh, Surjit Singh Barnala and Parkash Singh Badal and the Jathe. Gurcharan Singh Tohra. So, the BJP would like to reach an agreement with the party that can win the Sikh trust in the SGPC elections.
According to our information, the 5-member committee is currently trying to bring together all the Badal opposition parties and field one candidate against one candidate of the Badal Dal and make the fight ‘Badal family vs. the entire Panth’. But in this case, it seems very difficult to get the support of Simranjit Singh Mann’s Akali Dal Amritsar.
While the Akali Dal Badal is also alert and this time instead of entering the election fray alone, he is also thinking of entering the election fray together with 2 or 3 so-called Panthic groups so that the narrative of ‘Panth vs. Rebel’ can be created, not Badal family vs. Panth. However, although the central government seems to be preparing to hold Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee elections, it will also depend on the situation in the country and it will also be seen what attitude the ‘AAP’ government of Punjab adopts regarding this.
