Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday announced a revision in the first phase programme of the party’s Jabar Virodhi lehar which will be observed across the State besides traditional political conferences in August.
“The lehar would now be launched by party president Sukhbir Badal at Dera Baba Nanak on July 27,” said the former minister and party spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema.
He said that following this, the party president would travel to Qadian assembly constituency on July 28, Fatehgarh Churian on July 31, Gurdaspur on August 1 and Batala on August 2 as part of this programme.
Cheema said that the party president would address small meetings of workers to listen to their grievances during his visit to each of these constituencies.
He said that Sukhbir Badal would also visit and interact with families of party workers who have faced repression at the hands of Congressmen.
Besides, the Akali leader said that the SAD president would also attend the upcoming Rakhar Punia Jor Mela on August 7, the Isru conference in memory of martyr Karnail Singh Isru on August 15 and the conference on occasion of death anniversary of former SAD president Harchand Singh longowal on August 20 at longowal.