GG News Bureau
Chandigarh, 29th July. Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal dissolved the party’s organisational structure on Thursday, following the recommendations of a committee formed to examine the causes for the party’s failure in the 2022 Punjab assembly elections.
According to a party release issued here Thursday evening, all bodies, including the core committee, the working committee, and other units, as well as all wings of the party, have been dissolved.
Balwinder Singh Bhunder, leader of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), stated on Wednesday that the 13-member committee did not recommend a change in leadership.
Badal has been given complete authority to restructure the party in accordance with the recommendations of the Jhundan panel.
The panel, led by Iqbal Singh Jhundan, visited 100 assembly constituencies to solicit input from party workers and others. The report has not yet been made public.
According to the release, the party’s core committee, its highest decision-making body, deliberated, accepted, and applauded the Jhundan Committee’s recommendations on Thursday and empowered the SAD president to “take all necessary steps for the implementation of the recommendations.”
“The committe had recommended dissolution and reconstitution of the party’s organisational structure as well as several other steps to rejuvenate the party in line with Panthic and Punjabis interests and values and in the light of the sentiments of the party’s grassroot workers, cadre and leadership,” said the release.
As the first step toward rejuvenation, the committee recommended that the party’s organisational structure be reconstituted.
It had also recommended norms for restructuring the party and its hierarchy in light of the values that had inspired the party in the first place and its glorious heritage. It had also sought to place a special emphasis on the aspirations of the youth.
The party president will now begin a process of broader consultations with senior colleagues, as well as workers and cadre at the grassroots, in order to reconstitute the party’s structure.
Badal will also contact various Punjabi and ‘Panthic’ personalities, such as intellectuals, writers, religious-political ideologues, opinion makers, and representatives of various bodies from various sections of society, such as farmers, employees, students, teachers, traders, housewives, youth, and so on.
The committee recommended that a special emphasis be placed on articulating and fulfilling the aspirations of the youth, as well as giving them prominent representation in the party’s new organisational structure.
“The party’s new structure and its image will fully conform both to youth’s aspirations, dreams and goals as well as to the traditional ideals and values that had inspired our ancestors in various struggles for the Panth and Punjab in the past,” said a party spokesperson, adding that Punjab’s and Panth’s interests will continue to be the guiding spirit behind rejuvenation of the party.
Manpreet Singh Ayali, a SAD MLA, had boycotted the presidential elections on July 18, claiming that various issues concerning Punjab remained unresolved. He had advocated for the implementation of the Jhundan panel report, as well as a change in party leadership.
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