India, Feb. 17 -- Harjinder Singh Dhami resigned as Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president on Monday and offered to quit as the head of the seven-member committee constituted by the Akal Takht on December 2 to supervise the re-organisation of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).

Dhami resigned four days after Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh strongly condemned the sacking of Giani Harpreet Singh as Takht Damdama Sahib jathedar by the SGPC executive committee chaired by him (Dhami) on February 10.

Announcing his resignation at a press conference in Amritsar, Dhami read out the last line of the social media post of Giani Raghbir Singh that said: "Once again, I want to say from my heart that terminating the services of G...