Narendra Modiâs BJP Has No Need For an NDA The NDA today sustains itself only on terms dictated by the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo. Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. Photo: PTI/Files Politics18/Dec/2020 With the possible exception of L.K.Advani, Sardar Parkash Singh Badal is perhaps the most venerable political leader in the very crowded non-Congress crowd. Alarm bells should have rung when Badal saheb announced his decision to return his Padma Vibhushan Award in protest over the three controversial farm laws. But the potentates atop the Raisina Hills seem to have turned off their hearing aids.