The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), on Saturday, expelled former Member of Parliament (MP) Jagmeet Brar from the primary membership of the party for indulging in anti-party activities.
This decision was announced by party’s disciplinary committee chairman Sikandar Singh Maluka after a meeting of the committee.
Maluka said the party had given Brar ample opportunities to explain his actions. He said it was clear that Brar was hatching conspiracies against the SAD even as he publicly professed that he was trying to strengthen it.
He said if the expelled leader was sincere towards strengthening the party he would have stayed within party discipline and worked as per the guidelines given by the party president. “Instead of doing this he is announcing his own committees which cannot be tolerated”.
After SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal recently constituted the party’s core committee and kept Brar out of it, the former MP announced the expansion of a parallel power group of senior leaders who want a change in party leadership.
Brar had constituted the parallel group called SAD Unity Coordination Committee two months ago, seeking a course correction in the party. This led to the initiation of disciplinary action against him with Maluka seeking his reply from him.
Brar said 12 members have been added to his panel, including Adesh Pratap Kairon, who is son-in-law of Shiromani Akali Dal chief patron Parkash Singh Badal.
Maluka said the so-called Unity Panel was Brar’s personal creation. A former Congress leader, Brar joined the SAD in April 2019 ahead of the Lok Sabha elections and called it “ghar wapsi” as his father was also an Akali leader.