Radio Brisvaani
A Shiromani Akali Dal lawmaker Friday said that the party made a wrong decision by asking the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seats of Sikhs, to pardon Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim in a 2007 blasphemy case. The Takht had pardoned Ram Rahim in 2015 inviting a backlash from the community.
The party feels it was wrong decision. It is not needed to debate it again and again said SAD legislator Parminder Singh Dhindsa.
He was in Amritsar to pay obeisance at Golden Temple. Dhindsa, who was finance minister in the Akali government in 2015, is now front runner for the party Lok Sabha ticket from Sangrur.
Several leaders have quit the SAD in recent months alleging that party president Sukhbir Singh Badal asked the Akal Takht Jathedar to pardon Ram Rahim back 2015.
The Akali Dal has always denied the allegation.
