Chandigarh, Feb. 12 -- The seven-member Akal Takht-constituted committee is scheduled to meet Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) working president Balwinder Singh Bhundar in Chandigarh on Thursday. The committee will ask the party to restart the membership drive as per the edict of the temporal seat.

"In case the SAD's working president fails to give assurance to recall the (membership) drive, the committee would report back to the clergy that things are out of its hands, requesting the Akal Takht jathedar to take the matter into his own hands," said rebel Akali leader Gurpartap Singh Wadala on Wednesday. He is a member of the committee constituted by the Akal Takht.

On December 2 last year, Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh pronounced edi...