Various quasi-exact solvability conditions, involving the parameters of the periodic associated Lamé potential, are shown to emerge naturally in the quantum Hamilton-Jacobi approach. It is found that, the intrinsic nonlinearity of the Riccati type quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equation is primarily responsible for the surprisingly large number of allowed solvability conditions in the associated Lamé case. We also study the singularity structure of the quantum momentum function, which yields the band edge eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. * akksprs@uohyd.ernet.in † akksp@uohyd.ernet.in ‡ prasanta@prl.ernet.in