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Punjab: Takht panel seeks clarity on membership drive from Bhundar

The next meeting has been fixed for February 11, in which, according to Gurpartap Singh Wadala, who is part of the Takht committee, Bhundar will be asked if the membership drive initiated by the party was as per last year’s edict of the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs.

Shiromani Akali Dal working president Balwinder Singh Bhundar
Published on Feb 05, 2025 06:06 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

7-member panel constituted by Akal Takht to meet today

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami has asked all members, including former SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar, convener of dismantled Akali Dal Sudhar Lehar (reforms movement) Gurpartap Singh Wadala, SAD’s MLA from Dakha constituency Manpreet Singh Ayali, head of Jhoondan committee constituted to suggest course correction for SAD in 2023 Singh Santa Singh Umaidpur and Bibi Satwant Kaur, to reach for the meeting.

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami (HT File)
Published on Feb 04, 2025 06:38 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

After Nalvi, Jhinda slams Abhay, Akalis for ‘influencing’ independents

Jhinda, the leader of Panthak Dal Jhinda group, was in Karnal to take suggestions from supporters and the community at a Sikh Sammelan at Dera Kar Sewa.

The gathering was called a day ahead of a crucial meeting called by the Gurdwara Election Commission on Feb 2, which Jhinda said has now been deferred by two weeks due to unavoidable reasons and now all the groups have more time. (HT File)
Updated on Feb 01, 2025 10:58 PM IST
By, Karnal

SAD asks Dhami-led Takht panel to supervise membership drive

Confirming the development party spokesperson Daljit Singh Cheema said: “The party has given all rights to (SGPC chief) Dhami to take decisions and take forward the work of supervising the membership drive.”

SGPC chief Harjinder Singh Dhami, SAD working president Balwinder Singh Bhundar and senior leader Daljit Singh Cheema during the party’s working committee meeting in Chandigarh on Friday. (HT Photo)
Published on Feb 01, 2025 08:06 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

SAD meeting on Ambedkar statue vandalism today 

Party leader Daljit Singh Cheema said the meeting, which would be held at the party’s headquarters here, would be presided over by SAD’s working president Balwinder Singh Bhundar

A video clip had gone viral on social media in which the accused was seen hitting the statue multiple times with a hammer. (HT File)
Published on Jan 31, 2025 06:14 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

Gurdwara elections body likely to hold SGPC polls in June

The Gurdwara Elections Commission has set April 16 as the date for finalising the electoral rolls, after which it would write to the union ministry for home to announce the election.

A SAD delegation last week had met justice SS Saron (retd), commissioner gurdwara elections, last week who extended the last date for filing objections from January 24 to March 10. (HT File)
Published on Jan 30, 2025 10:51 PM IST
By, Chandigarh

HSGMC: 18 independents form Akal Panthak Morcha, get support from HSPD

Amid the ongoing lobbying among the Sikh groups to get majority for the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (HSGMC), 18 of the 22 independents on Tuesday announced formation of Akal Panthak Morcha.

Independents who formed Akal Panthak Morcha during a meeting in Kaithal on Tuesday. (HT Photo)
Published on Jan 29, 2025 05:34 AM IST
By, Karnal

SAD leaders ‘conspiring’ to remove me from post: Giani Harpreet Singh

Meanwhile, at an event at Takht Hazur Sahib in Nanded various Sikh organisations, including Budha Dal, extended support to Giani Hapreet Singh.

Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh
Updated on Jan 28, 2025 09:58 AM IST
By, Amritsar

National Fiscal Health Index 2025: SAD hits out at CM Mann over Punjab’s poor performance

Expressing shock at the latest findings of the Niti Aayog, senior leaders Bikram Singh Majithia and Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said the AAP had failed comprehensively on all five parameters of fiscal health index -- quality of expenditure, revenue mobilisation, fiscal prudence, debt indices, and debt sustainability.

The Shiromani Akali Dal demanded chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s resignation. (PTI)
Updated on Jan 25, 2025 06:43 PM IST
By, Chandigarh

Wadala included in committee to oversee SAD’s membership drive

Shiromani Akali Dal includes rebel leader Gurpartap Singh Wadala in membership drive committee, but he calls it a “farce” undermining Akal Takht's authority.

Rebel Akali leader Gurpartap Singh Wadala (HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 24, 2025 08:08 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

SAD delegation meets gurdwara election commission, seeks review of voters’ list for SGPC polls

The delegation included the party’s working president Balwinder Singh Bhundar, former president Sukhbir Singh Badal and SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami.

SAD working president Balwinder Singh Bhundar, former president Sukhbir Singh Badal and SGPC chief Harjinder Singh Dhami handing over a memorandum to gurdwara elections chief commissioner justice SS Saron (retd) on Thursday. (Sourced)
Updated on Jan 24, 2025 07:34 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

Sikh clergy to take up allegations of SAD defying religious decree on January 28

Panthic issues, including rebel leaders’ allegations against Shiromani Akali Dal, would be taken up at the meeting that Giani Harpreet Singh would not be attending.

On December 2, the Sikh clergy, led by the Akal Takht jathedar, had pronounced ‘tankhah (religious punishment)’ on SAD leaders, including former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, for mistakes committed by the party and its government from 2007-17. (Sameer Sehgal/HT file)
Published on Jan 23, 2025 02:38 PM IST

Act against SAD for ‘ignoring’ Dec 2 edict, SGPC urges Akal Takht

Led by SGPC executive committee members Jaswant Singh Purain and Paramjit Singh Raipur, the gurdwara body members visited the Akal Takht secretariat to meet jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh. However, due to his absence, they handed over a memorandum to his personal secretary Jaspal Singh.

A group of SGPC members on Wednesday approached the Akal Takht seeking action against Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders for “not complying” with the December 2 decree of the highest Sikh temporal seat in totality. (HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 23, 2025 06:00 AM IST
By, Amritsar

‘Clergy ’s edict being defied‘: Wadala calls on Takht jathedar

SAD announced the membership drive during its January 10 working committee meeting during which the party also accepted Sukhbir Singh Badal’s resignation as party chief

Gurpartap Singh Wadala (Sameer Sehgal/HT)
Updated on Jan 21, 2025 08:44 AM IST
By, Amritsar

Sukhbir gets first membership as SAD launches drive

SAD’s working president Bhundar inaugurated the drive by handing over membership copies to Maheshinder Singh Grewal and Suchha Singh Langah. The membership drive started across the state.

The Shiromani Akali Dal initiated its new membership drive from Muktsar on Monday with senior leader Sukhbir Singh Badal receiving the first membership slip at Badal village. He received the slip from a local leader. (HT)
Updated on Jan 21, 2025 06:18 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

SAD calls SGPC members’ meeting on Jan 21 to discuss voters’ list discrepancies

According to Daljit Singh Cheema, the meeting will discuss ‘discrepancies’ after reports that a large number of non-Sikhs and fake voters have been added

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami (File photo)
Updated on Jan 18, 2025 05:24 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

{7-member panel} Derecognition of party: SAD leaders ‘misleading’ community, says rebel group after meeting jathedar

The seven-member Akal Takht panel was constituted by the highest Sikh temporal seat on December 2 to supervise the recruitment drive and hold elections of the president and other office-bearers in six months.

Rebel Akali leaders on Thursday met Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh here and alleged that the leaders of the Sukhbir Singh Badal camp had made a false statement that he (Giani Raghbir Singh) was convinced by their viewpoint that the implementation of the seven-member Akal Takht panel will lead the party into a legal trouble and the jathedar allowed them to act as per the party constitution. (Sameer Sehgal/HT)
Published on Jan 16, 2025 10:32 PM IST
By, Amritsar

Restore Fakhr-e-Qaum title on Parkash Singh Badal, SAD appeals to Akal Takht

On December 2, 2024, the five Sikh high priests, led by Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh, had revoked the title on Badal senior, 13 years after it was bestowed on him in the Golden Temple complex in recognition of his services during his long political career.

Shiromani Akali Dal senior leader Sukhbir Singh Badal addressing a gathering during a rally on the occasion of Maghi Mela in Muktsar on Tuesday. (Sanjeev Kumar/HT)
Updated on Jan 15, 2025 05:58 AM IST
ByVishal Joshi, Muktsar

Restore Fakhr-e-Qaum title on Parkash Singh Badal, SAD appeals to Akal Takht

A resolution was passed to this effect at the traditional convention of the Shiromani Akali Dal during the annual Maghi Mela in Muktsar; Sukhbir says those who speak against Badal Senior are ‘qaum de gaddar’.

Former deputy chief minister and ex-president of the Shiromani Akali Dal Sukhbir Singh Badal (centre) sitting on the ground along with party workers at the SAD convention during the Maghi Mela at Muktsar on Tuesday afternoon before he was invited on stage. (Sanjeev Kumar/HT)
Updated on Jan 14, 2025 03:22 PM IST
ByVishal Joshi

MLA Sukhi summoned by Punjab speaker on Feb 11: Govt in HC

During the hearing of a public interest litigation (PIL), the Punjab government apprised the court that the MLA has been asked to appear in the Vidhan Sabha by the speaker on February 11 to present his side

Banga MLA Dr Sukhwinder Singh Sukhi (HT File)
Updated on Jan 14, 2025 07:16 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

All eyes on Muktsar Maghi Mela

Two camps of radical leaders— Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh, who is currently lodged in Dibrugarh jail of Assam under the National Security Act (NSA), and another by the former MP Simranjit Singh Mann, have announced to hold parallel rallies tomorrow

Preparation for SAD rally in full swing at Muktsar on Monday. (Sanjeev Kumar/HT)
Updated on Jan 14, 2025 06:50 AM IST
ByVishal Joshi, Bathinda

MLA Ayali to seek jathedar directions before joining Akali Dal’s membership drive

Dakha MLA Manpreet Singh Ayali is part of Akal Takht’s 7-member committee formed to supervise SAD’s re-organisation

Dakha MLA Manpreet Singh Ayali (HT File)
Updated on Jan 14, 2025 06:46 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

Don’t show laxity in implementing 7-member panel directive: Jathedar to SAD

The jathedar said the SAD’s step to initiate the membership drive by assigning duties to its leaders in different areas and other states is “good in light of the Akal Takht decision.”

Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh
Updated on Jan 12, 2025 05:50 AM IST
By, Amritsar

SAD working panel accepts Sukhbir’s resignation

Second-most senior leader Balwinder Singh Bhundar to be acting president until the election of new chief on March 1; party’s membership drive to start from Jan 20

Party’s second-most senior leader Balwinder Singh Bhundar will be the acting president until a new leadership structure is formed. (HT)
Updated on Jan 11, 2025 08:50 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

Badals’ nearly three-decade SAD reign comes to an end

Sukhbir Badal's resignation from SAD ends a 30-year Badal legacy, following electoral declines and internal party splits amid growing dissent.

Senior SAD leaders Balwinder Singh Bhundar, Sukhbir Singh Badal and Daljit Cheema during party’s working committee meeting in Chandigarh on Friday. (HT)
Updated on Jan 11, 2025 08:40 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

HSGMC polls: No need for political parties to manage Sikh body affairs: HC

The SAD was barred from contesting the polls as per provisions of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara (Management) Act, 2014 due to its status as a registered political party under the Representation of the People Act (RPA), 1951

The court recorded that as alleged by the SAD, the commissioner has not overstepped the domain of the legislature and these provisions were added in the 2014 Act to prevent the politicisation of the managing committee. (iStock)
Updated on Jan 11, 2025 07:44 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

SAD leaders issuing ‘distorted’ statements on meeting with Akal Takht jathedar, claims rebel group

The Akali rebel group, led by Gurpartap Singh Wadala, said they have been informed that there had been no discussion on making alterations in the ‘Hukamnama’ issued by the Akal Takht jathedar, and the SAD leaders were making baseless statements about it in public after their meeting with Giani Raghbir Singh.

SAD leaders had met Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh in Amritsar on Wednesday. (Sameer Sehgal/HT)
Updated on Jan 10, 2025 07:30 AM IST
By, Jalandhar

Move to rechristen UT adviser post as chief secy kicks up row

AAP-Punjab spokesperson Neel Garg said this decision exposes the ‘anti-Punjab’ attitude of the central government.

Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly and senior Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa called the move a “direct attack on Punjab’s legitimate claim over the city”.
Updated on Jan 09, 2025 06:04 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

SAD not to contest Delhi assembly polls: Paramjit Singh Sarna

A party leader, who did not want to be named, said the SAP was currently busy with the upcoming Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee elections on January 19

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Delhi unit president Paramjit Singh Sarna (HT File)
Updated on Jan 09, 2025 08:00 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

SAD working committee meet on Jan 10 to decide on Sukhbir’s resignation

Party delegation calls on Akal Takht jathedar, apprise him about ‘legal hurdles’ being faced to recast SAD under supervision of 7-member panel

SAD leaders after meeting Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh in Amritsar on Wednesday. (Sameer Sehgal/HT)
Updated on Jan 09, 2025 05:24 AM IST
By, Amritsar
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