New Delhi, November 10
Worried about a confrontationist situation arising in Punjab in the run-upto the elections of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Amritsar, on November 12, SAD chief and former Chief Minister of Punjab Parkash Singh Badal is assembling his supporters in the religious body’s Executive Committee here tomorrow before flying them in a chartered aircraft to Amritsar.
Considering the surcharged atmosphere in Amritsar and elsewhere in the border state in connection with the SGPC elections, Mr Badal had moved about 105 of his supporters in the SGPC Executive Committee to Barwana in Haryana.
They will be brought here tomorrow morning. After a head count, they will address a press conference at a hotel near the IGI airport before emplaning for Amritsar. They will be accompanied by Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Rajya Sabha MP and Mr Badal’s son Sukhbir Singh Badal.
Mr Badal will receive his supporters at the Rajasansi international airport in Amritsar.
There are apprehensions that the police might block the SGPC Executive Committee members owing allegiance to Mr Badal from entering their complex in Amritsar.
