India, March 19 -- A day after the executive committee of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) rejected his resignation as the president of the apex gurdwara body, Harjinder Singh Dhami on Tuesday agreed to resume his duties as SGPC chief.

The development comes after SAD working president Balwinder Singh Bhundar and party leader Sukhbir Singh Badal met Dhami at his residence in Hoshiarpur and urged him to withdraw his resignation.

Dhami had tendered his resignation from the post of SGPC president on February 17. After holding a closed-door meeting with SAD leaders Sukhbir and Bhunder, who had come to his residence this morning to urge him withdraw his resignation, Dhami said he was ready to join his duties.

"For a long ti...