All set for SAD to elect new president
Kanwar Inder Singh/royalpatiala.in News/November 26,2024
Sukhbir Singh Badal resigned as the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday and submitted his resignation to the party’s working committee.
The information is shared by party spokesperson Daljit Singh Chemma on his social media account . The message shared by Cheema is “The SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal submitted his resignation to the working Committee of the party today to pave the way for the election of new President. He thanked all the party leaders & workers for expressing confidence in his leadership and extending wholehearted support & cooperation throughout the tenure.”
The move comes more than two months after the Akal Takht Sahib declared the 62-year-old ‘tankhaiya’ or guilty of violating the Sikh religious code of conduct on August 30.
Sukhbir was party president since 2008. It was under his leadership that the SAD formed a second successive government in Punjab in 2012.
Earlier on August 29, Badal had appointed senior party leader Balwinder Singh Bhundar as working president of the party.
Bhundar has called an emergency meeting of working committee of the party on November 18 at party headquarters office in Chandigarh.
