Meeting for the first time after the Punjab Assembly polls, Core Committee of the Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday thanked the people of Punjab for peaceful polling in Punjab and for coming out in large number to support the policies of peace, communal harmony and all-round development followed by the SAD-BJP Government in the State.
The party thanked the people for preserving he traditional bonds of Punjabi unity despite dangerous designs by the enemies of peace and communal harmony.
In a meeting chaired by the party president Sukhbir Singh Badal, the party also thanked all its rank and file, workers, office bearers and leaders at different levels for their hard work and dedication to ensure the party’s victory in the polls. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who is also the patron of SAD, could not attend the meeting as he is away in the United States for treatment.
Giving details of the meeting which lasted about three hours, party’s General Secretary Harcharan Singh Bains said that among the issues discussed were the party’s strategy and preparations for the forthcoming elections to the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee.
“The party feels that there is a deep-rooted and dangerous conspiracy by forces inimical to the Khalsa Panth to create confusion and sow seeds of disunity in Panthic ranks. These elements operating with the help of the latest weapons of technology are using massive misinformation and disinformation as tools in their modes of warfare to weaken the Sikh community as also too strike a the foundations of Punjabi unity,” he said.
Without naming anyone, Bains said these elements are behind many of the acts that have caused deep hurt in the minds of the Sikh masses.
“Their sustained and highly motivated campaign is aimed at depriving the Sikh masses of a credible single socio-political and religious platform . This is the reason behind the vicious anti-Akali propaganda carried out by the anti-Sikh forces acting under the garb of Sikhs before and during the just concluded elections to the Punjab Vidhan Sabha,” added Bains, while talking to the media.
The Akali Dal leader said that the meeting also decided to seek detailed field reports from the candidates of SAD during the Vidhan Sabha poll on the work done by the rank and file of the party.