Less than a month af­ter de­sert­ing from the Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Badal and hav­ing been sub­se­quently re­moved from the party, vet­eran Akali leader from the Ma­jha re­gion of Pun­jab -Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Ran­jit Singh Brahm­pura, along with his col­leagues and as­so­ci­ates has an­nounced the for­ma­tion of a new Akali Dal to be for­mally an­nounced on 14 De­cem­ber 2018.

Flanked by Akali lead­ers Sewa Singh Sekhwan and Ran­jit Singh Aj­nala and oth­ers, Brahm­pura made this an­nounce­ment at a press con­fer­ence in Am­rit­sar say­ing that this for­ma­tion is to counter the in­dif­fer­ence and stu­pid­ity of lead­ers like Sukhbir Singh Badal and Bikramjit Singh Ma­jithia.

He said that the new Akali Dal will be on the lines of the spirit of the body as was formed in 1920. He said that the po­lit­i­cal­iza­tion of the SGPC, the par­don to the Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim and the Bar­gari and Be­hbal Kalan killings had de­mor­alised the Akali work­ers and there was need to rein­vig­o­rate the true tra­di­tions of the Akalis.

He said that there will be spe­cial ef­forts to con­tact the Bains broth­ers -Bal­winder Singh Bains and Simar­jit Singh Bains, AAP leader Sukh­pal Singh Khaira and the lead­er­ship of the Bar­gari Mor­cha and urge them to be part of the new party.

He said that the new Akali Dal would cer­tainly have “Shi­ro­mani Akali” as part of its name and he would en­deav­our to bring all Tak­sali Akalis -the pure Akali lead­ers and ranks, on board. He thereby sig­nalled that it was the Sukhbir Badal brand of pol­i­tics that they were re­volt­ing against and that this would be their main plank dur­ing the forth­com­ing Lok Sabha elec­tions in 2019. 

Brahm­pura lauded the role of Kuldip Singh Wadala and Navjot Singh Sidhu in cre­at­ing a cli­mate for ex­pe­dit­ing the open­ing of the Kar­tarpur cor­ri­dor. He also ap­pre­ci­ated the ac­cep­tance of this long-stand­ing Sikh de­mand by the In­dian and Pak­istan gov­ern­ments. He em­pha­sized that, “the Sikh prayers for un­fet­tered ac­cess to his­tor­i­cal Gur­d­waras” have been an­swered.

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An­other leader at the press meet Sewa Sikh Sekhwan an­nounced that, “we will en­deav­our to have a true fed­eral struc­ture in the coun­try.”

2 De­cem­ber 2018, Am­rit­sar, WSN News Desk