24-Oct-2024 10:04 PM
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Chandigarh, Oct 24 (Reporter) The Working Committee of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday unanimously decided not to contest forthcoming by-elections to four assembly seats in Punjab in keeping with panthic interests and ‘Maan-Maryada’ of Sri Akal Takht Sahib.
The unanimous decision was taken at an emergent meeting of the party Working Committee, district presidents and constituency in-charges, presided over by SAD’s Working President Balwinder Singh Bhunder.
Senior party leader Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said “at today’s meeting there was an overwhelming feeling that party President Sukhbir Singh Badal had taken moral responsibility for all acts of omission and commission during the erstwhile SAD government on behalf of the party.
"It was felt by the Working Committee, district presidents and constituency in-charges that since the head of the family, party President Badal had been forbidden by Sri Akal Takht to participate in the by-elections, they too could not participate in the exercise. Everyone felt they should consider themselves as part of the SAD President’s family and act accordingly”, he said.
Asserting that the SAD was completely beholden to Sri Akal Takht Sahib and was resolute in its determination to obey all the directions of the supreme temporal seat of the Sikhs, Dr Cheema said “we also understand that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the State, the Central Government and the BJP and RSS have hatched a conspiracy to make the SAD leaderless...////...