SAD disciplinary panel summons rebel Jagmeet Brar on 6 Dec

The Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD) disciplinary committee on Friday asked the rebel party leader Jagmeet Brar to clear his position on his alleged anti party activities on December 6.
Party’s disciplinary committee chairman Sikander Maluka in a letter issued to Brar said that the committee was not at all satisfied with his reply to a notice sent earlier.
Maluka further asked Brar to appear before the party panel in person to clarify his position on the allaegation of his anti party activities.
After SAD president, Sukhbir Singh Badal, constituted the party’s core committee and kept Brar out of it, the former MP on Thursday announced the expansion of a parallel power group of senior leaders who want a change in the party leadership.
Brar set up 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.
Announcing the expansion at a Press conference in Chandigarh on Thursday, Brar said 12 members have been inducted into the panel. They include Pratap Kairon, the son-in-law of Shiromani Akali Dal chief patron Parkash Singh Badal.
Maluka said the so-called Unity Panel was Brar’s personal creation. Meanwhile, in a setback to Jagmeet Brar, two Akali leaders have distanced themselves from the Unity and Coordination panel announced by Brar on Thursday. Arwinder Pal Singh Pakhoke and Ravi Inder Singh Kahlon have in a statement expressed loyalty to Sukhbir Badal.
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.