SAD factions join hands, to float party

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 19

In a major political development, SAD (Democratic) president Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and SAD (Taksali) president Jathedar Ranjit Singh Brahmpura today announced dissolution of their respective parties to form a new party in the first week of May.

“We are forming a new political party. Its name will be announced in the first week of May,” Dhindsa said.

“We know that Punjab needs a new political front to give an alternative to the existing skewed political choices for people. We have had several rounds of discussions to decide our way forward. These will be made public soon. And, we are not collaborating with AAP, despite all guesses,” Dhindsa said.

Jathedar Brahmpura will be the patron, while Dhindsa will be the president of the new party, it was decided.

A six-member committee has been constituted to work out the details of the party. The committee included Jathedar Ujagar Singh Badali, Jathedar Mahinder Singh Hussainpur, Karnail Singh Peermohammad, Jagdish Singh Garcha, Ranjit Singh Talwandi and advocate Shinderpal Singh Brar members.

Dhindsa and Jathedar Brahmpura said a strong organisational structure would be formed by the new party in the first week of May and a fourth front would be formed in coordination with like-minded parties to defeat the major parties. The leaders, jointly, said PM Narendra Modi was urged to give up his stubbornness and accept the demands of farmers and provide relief to the protesters who had been agitating for months now.