As the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), India’s oldest regional party, gears up to mark its 100th year, it faces an existential crisis. Yet again. The Dhindsa clan, whose patriarch Sukhdev Dhindsa, a minister in the erstwhile Atal Bihari Vajpayee Cabinet, has raised the banner of revolt.
He, along with a group of renegades, after being expelled by the party earlier this year, has claimed ownership of the Akali Dal by passing a resolution to dislodge Sukhbir Singh Badal as the party’s president. This is the second revolt among the Akalis in as many years. In the run-up to the 2019 ...
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