CLOUDS OVER THE HOUSE OF BADALS
On January 18, rebelling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders met at Delhi’s Constitution Club to stitch together a coalition to challenge Sukhbir Badal’s leadership of the party. They had already identified SAD’s Rajya Sabha MP, Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, to anchor this coalition. Sukhdev, who for three decades had occupied the position of party secretary general, resigned in October last year from the leadership of the SAD in the Rajya Sabha. Soon after, his son, Parminder Singh Dhindsa, gave up his post as chief of the party unit in the Punjab assembly.
Politically, the SAD has been
