Punjab: The struggle within SAD
The Shiromani Akali Dal is battling an internal crisis with senior party leaders virtually revolting against the leadership of Sukhbir Badal.
The Shiromani Akali Dal is battling an internal crisis with senior party leaders virtually revolting against the leadership of Sukhbir Badal.
Earlier, senior party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa had resigned from all positions of the party.
Addressing a Congress rally in Lambi, the native village of former CM Parkash Singh Badal, Amarinder accused the former CM and SAD leader, Parkash Singh Badal of lying on the incidents of sacrilege in the state during his tenure.
In a statement, the CM said he would take on Akali veteran Badal on the latter’s home ground in Lambi to expose him over the issue.
Cabinet minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said SAD president Sukhbir should be given life imprisonment for his involvement in the sacrilege cases in order to divert the public attention months ahead of 2017 Assembly polls.
Former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is in the dock following the release of the Justice Ranjit Singh (retired) commission report which said that he had knowledge of the 2015 police firing in Punjab on anti-sacrilege protestors.
Taking strong exception to Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal’s allegations that the Punjab Chief Minister had met Baljit…
