SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia

NEW DELHI: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Friday said people in Punjab want the SAD and the BJP to come together, in another indication that the former allies could reunite for the February 2027 Punjab assembly elections.“We should understand that the Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP have worked together. Vajpayee ji and Badal ji strengthened this alliance, and it continued during Modi ji’s time. We had gone our separate ways over the farm laws,” Majithia told ANI.He then listed reasons why he believes people want the two parties to reunite, while making it clear that the final decision would rest with the leaderships of both parties.“But considering Punjab’s situation as a border state, social harmony and the social fabric, people want the two parties to come together. Whether they will come together will be decided by the BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal leadership. Harsimrat Badal has expressed the people’s sentiments. What the outcome will be, only time will tell,” he said.Majithia was referring to recent cryptic remarks by

Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the SAD’s only Lok Sabha MP and wife of party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal.“It is not my duty to speak, so I am holding back my tongue. You will come to know yourself. May God bless and may people give us strength. Such agreements, by way of which works related to development and progress used to be carried out from Delhi, and once again, the foundation of that development and progress is being laid in Punjab, which benefits the people of Punjab and Punjab,” she said on Thursday.The SAD first joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in 1998. However, it left the alliance in 2020 in protest against the BJP-led Centre’s contentious farm laws, which were eventually withdrawn in 2021.Earlier this month, Sukhbir Singh Badal met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sparking speculation about the possibility of a reunion of the former allies.The two parties governed Punjab together from 2007 to 2017.