Chandigarh, July 3 -- Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), in its attempt to regain its lost political ground in Punjab, has indicated its willingness to stitch up an alliance with its old-time partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the 2027 assembly polls.

In September 2020, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal pulled out of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), a week after the party MP Harsimrat Badal resigned from the Narendra Modi cabinet in protest against (now repealed) three farm laws in solidarity with the peasantry, who were protesting on the Delhi borders.

In its maiden meeting chaired by Sukhbir, after re-election as president of SAD, the core committee, the party's top decision-making body, on Monday decided in favour of a re-a...