CHANDIGARH: The Akali Dal (B) chief Prakash Singh Badal March 14 claimed that his differences with the SGPC president Gurcharan Singh Tohra had been resolved and the party would now work unitedly to make its programs successful.
He denied that the party’s dissolved working committee had got divided into two hostile camps.
But Mr. Badal could rather explain why many Tohra supporters had been boycotting party functions and had abstained from the working committee nor the immediate provocation for dissolving the party’s working committee and the district unity or even why the presidents of the three Akali you things were asked to resign To all questions Badal said Tohra told him that he had not given any direction to any member to dissociate from party functions or the working committee.
Under Tohras unity formula the heads of the Akali factions are to resign and the organizations dissolved to form a united Akali Dal whose affairs will be controlled by an 11-member presidium till a New president is elected.
Badal has been opposing the move to the charging of Tohra Badal maintains that the Akali Dal (B) is the dominant Akali faction and all other factions should merge in it. He insists that the Akali Dal (B) had demonstrated its supremacy over the other factions in the Jalandhar Lok Sabha by-elections well as by mobilizing people for various agitations it has launched in the last two years.
Badal hoped that Tohra would attend the party convention in his (Badals) home constituency Giddarbaha on March25 provided Tohra is in good health.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 18, 1994
