Lok Sabha MP Ranjit Singh Brahmpura had said that party president Sukhbir Badal’s (above) resignation was sought during the core committee meeting soon after the Assembly poll debacle. (File photo)
A day after disgruntled SAD veteran and Lok Sabha MP Ranjit Singh Brahmpura said that party president Sukhbir Badal’s resignation was sought during the core committee meeting soon after the Assembly poll debacle, a senior SAD leader said that majority of the core committee members were “unanimous” in their views that party “never sought Sukhbir Badal’s resignation as SAD president”. The view was expressed after a senior member raised the issue during Monday’s committee meeting here, asking the party to clarify on the issue.
Majority of SAD core committee members, however, were quick to intervene and said that there was no need to react on “individual remarks” of a disgruntled leader who had resigned from party posts and was no longer a member of core committee.
Sources added that one senior party leader even suggested that SAD core committee must pass “a resolution expressing faith in the leadership of Sukhbir Badal as SAD president”. However, core committee members said that “since party did not seek resignation of Sukhbir Badal there was no need for that”, a source revealed.
During the meeting, a core committee member said: “Seeking resignation of party president and its acceptance, if the president resigns, was a lengthy procedure, involving SAD core committee, political affairs committee, and the SAD delegates”.
Monday’s meeting was held at the party headquarters here this afternoon to deliberate on the issue of “sacrilegious distortions” in the history of the Sikh gurus and alleged “deliberate insults cast on their heroic acts”.
This was the second meeting of the SAD core committee after voices of dissent from Taksali Akali leaders. While SAD veterans Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Ranjit Singh Brahmpura have quit all party posts on health grounds, another disgruntled leader Sewa Singh Sekhwan, who is also a core committee member, was not present in both meetings.
Sekhwan said he was not invited for both the meetings.