royalpatiala.in News Impact: India’s second oldest regional party SAD remove defectors, updates its list of members
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ May 3,2024
On May 2,2024, News Portal royalpatiala.in had highlighted the plight of India’s second oldest regional party , shiromani akali dal (SAD) lackadaisical behavior towards updating its official website/ web portal.
As per shiromani akali dal official web portal/website many of its former leaders were still holds the key party position, which had left the party and joined Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress.
After the matter was highlighted by News Portal royalpatiala.in , shiromani akali dal leaders swung into action and within less than 24 hours, they updated party’s official website/ web portal https://shiromaniakalidal.com and removed all the defectors who had left the panthic party.
Shiromani Akali Dal is the second oldest party in India and oldest regional party of India. It was founded on December 14, 1920 at Sri Akal Takht Sahib, Amritsar and Surmukh Singh Jhabbal was its first president.
With the passage of time, many changes occurred in this regional, panthic party in all these 103 years.
The party remained in power in Punjab for 10 years, from 2007 to 2017 and lost 2 consecutive assembly polls in 2017 and 2022. Many of its leaders left the party after the party lost elections, due to some internal party politics and some eyeing green pastures in other political parties.
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