Akali Dal leader, Sukhbir Singh, Badal, addresses the media after he was re -elected as president of Shiromani Akali Dal in Amritsar on April 12, 2025. Photo credit: PTI
Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday (April 12, 2025) returned to the Shiromani Akali Dal helmet with his election as president of the Punjab headquarters, which has been staggering from a series of overwhelming losses and a reduced vote.
The former deputy director of 62 years was the first elective president in 2008. His re -election in the session of the General Delegate of the Atuend in Amritsar arrives just four months after he resigned after he was declared a bad duct or the byconducid byty of the byty of the byconducio of the Byty of) religia of the byconducty, the religion or the religion) Kingy or religless or religless or religless or religted or religcty) byconduct, “errors” made by the Shiromani akali dal (sad) and its government from 2007 to 2017.
He had survived an attempt to murder of a former Khanistani terrorist in the Golden Temple of Amritssar, while SEWA performance (service) as penance in December last year.
“I thank everyone for the entrance with this responsibility. I promise the people that Punjab will become a number one state,” Badal said after the electoral officer of the party, Gulzar Singh Ranike, declared his name as the new president.
Mr. Badal, son of the Patriarch of the Late Party Parkash Singh Badal, was the only candidate for the position of sad president.
The session to choose the new president of SAD was a hero at Salja Singh Samundari Hall in the Sri Darbar Sahaib complex in Amritsar. Badal’s name was proposed by the president who works in the party, Balwinder Singh Bhundar, while the leaders of the Paramjit scan and Mahsh party in Singh Grewal seconded him.
Several high -level leaders, including Mr. Badal’s wife and Bathinda Harsimrat Kaur Badal, former Minister Bikram Singh Majithia and Daljit Singh Singh Chema, were present.
In 2007, SAD formed the government in alliance with the BJP and retained power in 2012. But in 2017, the Wrest Power Congress. The Akali Dal account was reduced to 15 and the AAM AADMI party became the main opposition.
The party suffered its worst defeat in Punjab in 2022, winning only three seats from 117, while the AAP came to power in the state for the first time.
The SAD led by Badal faced another blow to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, since he managed to win only the parliamentary constitution of Bathinda of a total of 13 seats from Lok Sabha in Punjab. The SAD also saw a fall in its vote participation from 27.45% in 2019 to 13.42% in 2024 surveys.
On November 16, 2024, Mr. Badal presented his resignation from the president of the party after he was convicted of religious misconduct by the Akal Takht for “mistakes” committed by the SAD and his government from 2007 to 2017.
In January, his resignation was accepted by the party’s work committee. The sad, later, made the new membership unit.
Mr. Badal was declared ‘Tankhaiya’ after the leaders of the rebel party, including the prems Singh Chandumajra, the former leaders of SGPC Jagir Kaur and Eather appeared before the branch of Akal on July 1, 2024, and the forgive 2015 and the incidents of the incidents of Pardon Dera, saw the glasses of glasses, saw the glasses of glasses, saw the main glasses of glasses, saw the glasses of glasses.
Akal Takht on December 2 of last year pronounced religious punishment for Sukhbir Singh Badal and other leaders in the matter.
Published – April 12, 2025 05:38 pm ist
