Parkash Singh Badal: Tehsildar-aspirant who became five-time CM, forged alliance with BJP amid peak Hindu-Sikh polarisation
Badal learned from a young age that his destiny lay in politics. He was quick to grasp the consequence of events, forging an alliance with BJP that served the Akali Dal well for two decades, and severing it just as quickly when the farm reform laws were passed
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